Location
- Atlas number
- EN0613 (613)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bodmin
- National Grid reference
- SX08556580
- Latitude
- 50.46064
- Longitude
- -4.69878
- Altitude
- 166 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 6.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1478); Other (1813); Other (1847); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881); Other (1970); Other (1974); Other (1975); Geophysical Survey (1985)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 106660
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO47 (second identifier 4319)
- National record
- record SX 06 NE 21; monument 431339
- Wikidata
- Q31114358
Sources
- Atlas of Hillforts record
- Wikipedia
- Wikidata
- Historic England list entry
- Historic England research record
References
- Bartlett, A. 1985. Magnetometer survey at Castle Canyke, Bodmin, Ancient Monuments Laboratory Reports, English Heritage.
- MacLaughlan, H. 1849. Annual Report, J Royal Inst Cornwall, 31, 20-21.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 459-60.