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Golden Camp
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0622
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0622 (622)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Probus
- National Grid reference
- SW 9244 4687
- Latitude
- 50.28513
- Longitude
- -4.91502
- Altitude
- 75 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
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 3.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1977); Geophysical Survey (2004); 1st Identified Written Reference (1101-1200); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1880-1881); Other (1701-1800)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016889
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO61 (second identifier 23027)
- National record
- record SW 94 NW 5; monument 429720
- Wikidata
- Q31114414
Sources
References
- Cripps, L.J. 2004. Golden Hillfort, Probus, Cornwall: magnetometry survey, Unpublished monograph University of Durham.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 469.