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Padderbury Top
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0628
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0628 (628)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Gerrans
- National Grid reference
- SX3139561040
- Latitude
- 50.42489
- Longitude
- -4.37508
- Altitude
- 132 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1814); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1882); Other (1976-1983)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1007297
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO71 (second identifier 10236)
- National record
- record SX 36 SW 5; monument 436736
- Wikidata
- Q31114456
Sources
References
- Lysons, D. and Lysons, S. 1814. Magna Britannia. Vol 3, Cornwall, 248.