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St Stephens Beacon
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0633
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0633 (633)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Stephen in Brannel
- National Grid reference
- SW 959 545
- Latitude
- 50.35508
- Longitude
- -4.86967
- Altitude
- 200 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1971); Other (1901-2000)
Identifiers
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO80 (second identifier 20651)
- National record
- record SW 95 SE 15
- Wikidata
- Q31114292
Sources
References
- Herring, P. and Smith, J.R. 1991. The Archaeology of the St Austell China Clay Area. An archaeological and historical assessment.
- Oswald, A, Dyer, C. and Barber, M. 2001. The Creation of Monuments: Neolithic causwayed enclosures in the British Isles, London: English Heritage, No 127.