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Lankidden
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0645
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0645 (645)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Keverne
- National Grid reference
- SW 7556 1651
- Latitude
- 50.00634
- Longitude
- -5.13371
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1851); Other (1973); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878-1879); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004328
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO6555 (second identifier 13017)
- National record
- record SW 71 NE 16; monument 426464
- Wikidata
- Q31114645
Sources
References
- Cotton, M.A. 1958-9. Cornish Cliff Castles, Proc West Cornwall Fld Club, 2, 3, 119.
- Dowson, E. 1968. St Keverne parish check list, Cornish Archaeol, 7, 101-6.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 453, 460.
- Thomas, R. 1851. Letters to the West Briton, At CSL, Redruth, No 35.