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Dunmere Wood
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0619
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0619 (619)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lanivet
- National Grid reference
- SX0508068650
- Latitude
- 50.48510
- Longitude
- -4.74910
- Altitude
- 110 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1220); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1813); Other (1814); Other (1849); Other (1881); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004424
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO57 (second identifier 4301)
- National record
- record SX 06 NE 20; monument 431336
- Wikidata
- Q31114389
Sources
References
- Forde-Johnston, J. 1977. Hillforts of the Iron Age in England and Wales, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 77.
- Lysons, D. and Lysons, S. 1814. Magna Britannia, Vol III, Cornwall.
- MacLauchlan, W. 1849. Report, J Royal Inst Cornwall, 31, 24.
- Page, W (Ed), 1906. Victoria History of the County of Cornwall. Vol. 1, 464.
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