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Pencarrow Rounds
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0629
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0629 (629)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Egloshayle
- National Grid reference
- SX 0390 7000
- Latitude
- 50.49692
- Longitude
- -4.76545
- Altitude
- 140 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope 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
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); In-turned (West); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881); Other (1956-1972)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004488
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO72 (second identifier 26028)
- National record
- record SX 07 SW 6; monument 431834
- Wikidata
- Q31114465
Sources
References
- Maclean, J. 1876. A Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor, Vol 1, 404.
- 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 1, 319