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Resugga Castle
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0631
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0631 (631)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Stephen-in-Brannel
- National Grid reference
- SW94005104
- Latitude
- 50.32314
- Longitude
- -4.89542
- Altitude
- 95 m
Form and condition
- Type
- multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hollow Way (North west); Outworks (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881); Other (1958-1980)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017685
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO76 (second identifier 20898)
- National record
- record SW 95 SW 6; monument 430166
- Wikidata
- Q31114497
Sources
References
- Dowson, E., Sheppard, P. and Thomas, C. 1970, Parochal check-lists of antiquities, Cornish Archaeol, 9, 145.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 464.
- Polsue, J. ed. 1867-72. Lake's Parochial History of Cornwall, Vol 1, 162.