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Castle Killibury Camp
Cornwall, England · Atlas EN0615
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0615 (615)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Egloshayle
- National Grid reference
- SX0185073650
- Latitude
- 50.52893
- Longitude
- -4.79723
- Altitude
- 95 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); Outworks (West); Simple Gap (North east); Outworks (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, roundhouses, and rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1478); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881); Other (1972); Excavation (1974); Other (1978); Other (2011); Excavation (1975-1976)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1010439
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO50-52 (second identifier 17991)
- National record
- record SX 07 SW 7; monument 431839
- Wikidata
- Q31114359
Sources
References
- Miles, H. et al 1977. Excavations at Killibury hillfort, Cornish Archaeol, 16, 89-121.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 459.
- Taylor S.R. 2011. Benbole Farm Solar Array Electricity Cable Trenching, Unpublished assessment and evaluation Report No 11R084, Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Cornwall County Council,