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Lescudjack Castle
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0627
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0627 (627)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Penzance
- National Grid reference
- SW 4754 3104
- Latitude
- 50.12554
- Longitude
- -5.53362
- Altitude
- 65 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Outworks (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- Other (1870); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1876); Other (1986); Other (2006); Other (2007); 1st Identified Written Reference (1701-1800); Earthwork Survey (1983-2005); Excavation (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003270
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO70 (second identifier 31695)
- National record
- record SW 43 SE 8; monument 423950
- Wikidata
- Q31114443
Sources
References
- Anon 1870. A complete parochial history of the County of Cornwall, 3, London and Truro: J. C. Hotten and W. Lake, 226.
- Gaffney, C. 2005. Lescudjack hillfort, Penzance 2005/77, GSB, unpublished.
- Kirkham, G. 2006. Lescudjack hillfort, Penzance, Cornwall: archaeological assessment, Report No 06R003, Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Cornwall County Council.
- Kirkham, G. 2006. Lescudjack Hillfort, Penzance, Cornwall. Archaeological Assessment, Cornwall Archaeological Unit assessment and evaluation reports, Cornwall County Council.
- Kirkham, G. 2007. Lescudjack Hillfort, Penzance, Cornwall. Management Plan, Cornwall Archaeological Unit assessment and evaluation report, Cornwall County Council.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 456.