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Gear Farm
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0621
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0621 (621)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Martin-in- Meneage
- National Grid reference
- SW 7210 2480
- Latitude
- 50.07945
- Longitude
- -5.18686
- Altitude
- 64 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 6.1 ha
- Footprint
- 7.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1262); 1st Identified Written Reference (1803); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1972); Other (2001); Geophysical Survey (2001)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004430
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO59
- National record
- record SW 72 SW 13; monument 427434
- Wikidata
- Q31114403
Sources
References
- Fox, A. 1952, Hill-slope forts and related earthworks in south-west England and South Wales, Archaeol J, 109, 1-22.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 469.
- Polwhele, Rev R. 1803. The history of Cornwall, Vol I, London, 125.