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Bosigran Castle
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0640
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0640 (640)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Zennor
- National Grid reference
- SW 4160 3695
- Latitude
- 50.17603
- Longitude
- -5.62056
- Altitude
- 102 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Entrance forms
- Blocked (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Other (1971); Other (1982); Other (1887-1888); Other (1961-1975)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003106
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO6532 (second identifier 30695)
- National record
- record SW 43 NW 6; monument 423566
- Wikidata
- Q31114551
Sources
References
- Cotton, M.A. 1958-9. Cornish cliff castles, Proc W Cornwall Fld Club, 2,1, 120.
- Guthrie, A. 1959-60. Bosigran Cliff Castle, Proc W Cornwall Fld Club, 2, 178.
- Herring, P.C. 1987. National Trust archaeological survey of Bosigran, Cornwall, Archaeological Unit Report, Truro.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 460.
- Pool, P.A.S. and Weatherhill, C. 1979. Report to the National Trust on Iron Age sites at Bosigran Farm.
- Russell, V. 1971. West Penwith Survey, Unpublished report Cornwall County Council, 39.
- Weatherhill, C. 1981. Belerion ancient sites of Land's End, 36-7.