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Carn Les Boel
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0639
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0639 (639)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Leven
- National Grid reference
- SW 356 232
- Latitude
- 50.05034
- Longitude
- -5.69368
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1876); Other (1960); Other (1971); Other (1976); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004293
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO6535 (second identifier 28278)
- National record
- record SW 32 SE 7; monument 421257
- Wikidata
- Q31114539
Sources
References
- 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.
- Russell, V. 1971. West Penwith Survey, Unpublished report, Cornwall County Council, 39.
- Thomas, N. 1995. An Archaeological Assessment of Bosistow, Ardensawah and Roskestal Cliffs in St. Levan, Cornwall, Cornwall Event Report.