Location
- Atlas number
- EN0635 (635)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Veryan
- National Grid reference
- SW 9089 3880
- Latitude
- 50.21219
- Longitude
- -4.93221
- Altitude
- 75 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.3 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.25 ha, 2.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Hollow Way (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1840); Other (1880); Other (2011); Geophysical Survey (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1019746
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO87 (second identifier 22826)
- National record
- record SW 93 NW 2; monument 429574
- Wikidata
- Q31114518
Sources
- Atlas of Hillforts record
- Wikipedia
- Wikidata
- Historic England list entry
- Historic England research record
References
- King, A. and Alcock, L. 1969. Ringworks of England and Wales, Chateau Gaillard, 3, 112.
- Roseveare, M.J. and Roseveare, A.C. 2013. Veryan Castle, Cornwall: geophysical report. Unpublished report ArchaeoPhysica to National Trust.