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Black Head
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0638
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0638 (638)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Austell Bay
- National Grid reference
- SX0392948001
- Latitude
- 50.29922
- Longitude
- -4.75453
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 3.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1882); Earthwork Survey (1968); Earthwork Survey (1972); Other (1987); Other (1968-1972)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004391
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO6530 (second identifier 24062)
- National record
- record SX 04 NW 8; monument 431089
- Wikidata
- Q31114530
Sources
References
- Cotton, M.A. 1958-9. Cornish Cliff Castles, Proc West Cornwall Fld Club, 2, 3, 119.
- Johnson, N. and Rose, P. 1982. Defended settlement in Cornwall - an illustrated discussion, In ed. D. Miles, The Romano-British countryside: Studies in rural settlement and economy, BAR Brit Ser 103, 151-207.
- National Trust 1987. The National Trust archaeological survey Black Head, Cornwall, ER378, Historic Environment Service, Truro.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 453.