Location
- Atlas number
- EN0634 (634)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Kew
- National Grid reference
- SX03338003
- Latitude
- 50.58672
- Longitude
- -4.78017
- Altitude
- 149 m
Form and condition
- Type
- multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 6
- Enclosed area
- 2.5 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.8 ha, 2.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hollow Way (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881); Excavation (1902); Other (1971); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006662
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO85 (second identifier 17894)
- National record
- record SX 08 SW 1; monument 432055
- Wikidata
- Q31114508
Sources
References
- Baring-Gould, S., Burnard, R., Anderson, J.K. and Enys, J.D. 1904. An exploration of Tregaer Rounds J Royal Inst Cornwall, 16, 73-83.
- Maclean, J. 1876. A Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor, Vol 2, 5, 80.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 463.
- Peter, O.B. 1902. Ancient Earth-Fenced Town and Village Sites of Cornwall. J Royal Inst Cornwall, 15, 111.