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Trencrom Castle
Cornwall, England · Atlas EN0637
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0637 (637)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ludgvan
- National Grid reference
- SW51793621
- Latitude
- 50.17374
- Longitude
- -5.47764
- Altitude
- 174 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 6
- Enclosed area
- 0.92 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- annex and multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East); Hollow Way (East); In-turned (West); Hollow Way (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1740); 1st Identified Written Reference (1769); Other (1978); Other (1981); Earthwork Survey (1996); Other (2006); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1877-1878); Other (1914-1917); Other (1992-1998)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006721
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO91 (second identifier 31136)
- National record
- record SW 53 NW 18; monument 424816
- Wikidata
- Q31114529
Sources
References
- Borlase, W. 1769. The antiquities of Cornwall, London: W. Bowyer and J. Nichols.
- Hencken, H.O. 1932. The Archaeology of Cornwall and Scilly, 130, 301.
- Henderson, C. 1917. Manuscript on Trencrom Castle held in the Royal Institution of Cornwall - no details.
- Herring, P.1999. Trencrom, Lelant; Archaeological and Historical Assessment, Cornwall Archaeological Unit assessment and evaluation report, Cornwall County Council.
- Russell, V. 1971. West Penwith Survey, 31, 50.
- Thomas, A.C. 1957. National Trust pamphlet.
- Weatherhill, C. 1981. Belerion: Ancient Sites of Land's End, 57-58.