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Chynhalls Point
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0641
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0641 (641)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Keverne
- National Grid reference
- SW785174
- Latitude
- 50.01565
- Longitude
- -5.09197
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- scrub or bracken, heather moorland, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879); Other (1973); 1st Identified Written Reference (1801-1900); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003103
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO6538 (second identifier 13018)
- National record
- record SW 71 NE 22; monument 426482
- Wikidata
- Q31114605
Sources
References
- Cotton, M.A. 1959. Cornish cliff castles, Proc W Cornwall Fld Club, 2, 119.
- Dowson, E. 1968. St. Keverne parish checklist, Corn Arch, 7, 102.
- 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.