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Carthamartha
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0611
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0611 (611)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lezant
- National Grid reference
- SX37757825
- Latitude
- 50.58132
- Longitude
- -4.29317
- Altitude
- 52 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and unfinished work
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches and gang working
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and roundhouses
- Finds
- metal and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1884); Excavation (1937-1938)
Identifiers
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO41 (second identifier 6974)
- National record
- record SX 37 NE 4; monument 436749
- Wikidata
- Q31114277
Sources
References
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 466.
- Peter, O.B. 1902. Ancient earth-fenced town and village sites of Cornwall, J Royal Inst Cornwall, 15.
- Walford, G.F. and Quinnell, N. 1997. C.K. Andrews's excavations in Tavistock Woodlands in 1937 and 1938, Cornish Archaeol, 36, 77-95.