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Warbstow Bury Camp
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0636
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0636 (636)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Warbstow
- National Grid reference
- SX20129077
- Latitude
- 50.68864
- Longitude
- -4.54803
- Altitude
- 229 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 3, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 5.1 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1.8 ha, 5.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (South east); In-turned (North west); In-turned (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and hillslope
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1803); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1813); Other (1884); Other (1974); Other (2006); 1st Identified Written Reference (1801-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006710
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO88 (second identifier 2156)
- National record
- record SX 29 SW 1; monument 1006710
- Wikidata
- Q31114527
Sources
References
- Edwards, Z. 2014. Warbstow Bury, Warbstow, Cornwall: Archaeological Survey Report.
- Lysons, D. and Lysons, S. 1814. Magna Britannia. Vol 3, Cornwall, CXIIX.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 463.
- Polsue, J. ed. 1867-72. Lake's Parochial History of Cornwall, Vol 1, 99.
- Polwhele, R. 1803. History of Cornwall, Vol I, 210.