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Crane Castle
Cornwall, England · Atlas EN0642
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0642 (642)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Illogan
- National Grid reference
- SW6347843965
- Latitude
- 50.24815
- Longitude
- -5.31908
- Altitude
- 79 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Other (1851); Other (1970); Other (2011); Geophysical Survey (2013); Excavation (2013); 1st Identified Written Reference (1530-1635); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879-1886); Other (1701-1800); Other (1733-1766); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004390
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO6539 (second identifier 26605)
- National record
- record SW 64 SW 6; monument 426191
- Wikidata
- Q31114618
Sources
References
- Borlase, W. 1754. Antiquities Historical and Monumental of the County of Cornwall, 313.
- Borlase, W. 1769. The antiquities of Cornwall, London: W. Bowyer and J. Nichols.
- Parkes C. 2011. Tehidy Park, Illogan, Cornwall: archaeological assessment, Unpublished Cornwall Archaeological Unit Report No 11R065, Cornwall County Council.
- Roseveare M. J. and Roseveare A. C. K. 2013. Crane Castle, Illogan, Cornwall: geophysical survey report, Unpublished survey report, ArchaeoPhysica.
- Tangye, N. 1971. Earthworks in the Parish of Illogan, Cornish Archaeol, 10, 37-48.
- Toulmin Smith, L (Ed). 1907. The Itinerary of John Leland.
- Thomas, A.C. 1965. Coast and cliff names of Gwithian and the North Cliffs, J Royal Inst Cornwall, 5, 1, 12-36.
- Thomas, N. 1995. Godrevy and the North Cliffs- an archaeological assessment, Unpublished Historic Environment Service report, 1995R001.
- Thomas, R. 1851. Letters to the West Briton, At CSL, Redruth, No 33.