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Castle Pencaire
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0616
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0616 (616)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Breage
- National Grid reference
- SW5994330040
- Latitude
- 50.12171
- Longitude
- -5.35978
- Altitude
- 194 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); In-turned (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1540); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1770); Other (1851); Other (1878); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1007293
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO53 (second identifier 29247)
- National record
- record SW 53 SE 8; monument 424956
- Wikidata
- Q31114361
Sources
References
- Hencken, H.O. 1932. The Archaeology of Cornwall and Scilly, 142-143, 216, 297.
- Hitchins, F. and Drew, S. eds. 1824. The History of Cornwall, Vol 2, 108-109.
- Lysons, D. and Lysons, S. 1814. Magna Britannia, Vol III, Cornwall, CCXLIX.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 460.
- Polsue, J. ed. 1867-72. Lake's Parochial History of Cornwall, Vol 1, 136.