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Hall Rings
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0623
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0623 (623)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Pelynt
- National Grid reference
- SX 2143 5552
- Latitude
- 50.37240
- Longitude
- -4.51253
- Altitude
- 105 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 10 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1813); 1st Identified Written Reference (1823); Other (1882); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006682
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO62 (second identifier 10191)
- National record
- record SX 25 NW 1; monument 434808
- Wikidata
- Q31114417
Sources
References
- Bond, T. 1823. Topographical and Historical Sketches of East and West Looe, 67-68.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 463.
- Polsue, J. ed. 1867-72. Lake's Parochial History of Cornwall, Vol 4, 40.