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Penhargard Castle
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0630
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0630 (630)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Helland
- National Grid reference
- SX 0584 6995
- Latitude
- 50.49703
- Longitude
- -4.73907
- Altitude
- 92 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1813); 1st Identified Written Reference (1850); Other (1881)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004425
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO73 (second identifier 4300)
- National record
- record SX 06 NE 18; monument 431330
- Wikidata
- Q31114478
Sources
References
- Maclean, J. 1876. A Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor, Vol 2, 5.
- MacLauchlan, H. 1850. Report, Royal Inst Cornwall , 37, 32-40.