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Griffin's Point
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0644
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0644 (644)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Mawgan-in-Pydar
- National Grid reference
- SW 8415 6647
- Latitude
- 50.45818
- Longitude
- -5.04246
- 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 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, rubble, counterscarp bank, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Outworks (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1849); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881); Other (1969); Other (1999)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1021004
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO6550 (second identifier 21942)
- National record
- record SW 86 NW 4; monument 429281
- Wikidata
- Q31114635
Sources
References
- Cole, R. 1999. Bre-Pen, Mawgan Porth: a rapid archaeological and historic landscape assessment. Unpublished assessment and evaluation report, Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Cornwall County Council.
- 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.
- Henderson, C. 1930. A Survey of Cornwall, CPRE report, Thompson, WH (ed), CH 9, 57.
- Nankivall, F. 1962. The principal antiquities of the Newquay-Padstow District, Cornwall Archaeol Soc Field Guide 7.
- Sheppard, P.A. 1978. St Mawgan Checklist, Cornish Archaeol, 17, 119.