Location
- Atlas number
- EN0625 (625)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Thomas the Apostle Rural
- National Grid reference
- SX 2895 8462
- Latitude
- 50.63613
- Longitude
- -4.42017
- Altitude
- 153 m
Form and condition
- Type
- multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1872); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1884); Other (1974); Excavation (1902)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004243
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO67 (second identifier 17572)
- National record
- record SX 28 SE 5; monument 436246
- Wikidata
- Q31114434
Sources
References
- Anon 1872. A complete parochial history of the County of Cornwall, London and Truro: J. C. Hotten and W. Lake.
- Hencken, H.O. 1932. The Archaeology of Cornwall and Scilly, 128, 309.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 464.
- Peter, O.B. 1902. The ancient earth-fenced town and village sites of Cornwall, J Royal Inst Cornwall, 15, 116-17.