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Dingerein Castle
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0618
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0618 (618)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Gerrans
- National Grid reference
- SW881375
- Latitude
- 50.19974
- Longitude
- -4.96937
- Altitude
- 79 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1711); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1880); Other (1968)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1019742
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO56 (second identifier 22708)
- National record
- record SW 83 NE 8; monument 428517
- Wikidata
- Q31114381
Sources
References
- Hearne, T. ed. 1711. The itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary, In 9 Vols, Oxford, (2nd edition 1745).
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 464.