Location
- Atlas number
- EN0624 (624)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Michaelstow
- National Grid reference
- SX08387958
- Latitude
- 50.58445
- Longitude
- -4.70816
- Altitude
- 210 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- 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
- 1.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hollow Way (East); Outworks (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881); Geophysical Survey (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006707
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO63 (second identifier 17789)
- National record
- record SX 07 NE 7; monument 431560
- Wikidata
- Q31114425
Sources
References
- Morris B., Walls S. and Wapshott E. 2012. Tregawn Farm, Michaelstow, Cornwall: results of a desk-based assessment, geophysical survey, walkover survey and visual impact assessment, Report No 121031,
- Unpublished evaluation and assessment report, South West Archaeology.
- MacLauchlan, H. 1850. Annual report, Royal Inst Cornwall, 32, 37, Plate 29, Fig i.