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Little Dennis
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0646
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0646 (646)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Anthony-in-Meneage
- National Grid reference
- SW7872025660
- Latitude
- 50.08967
- Longitude
- -5.09497
- 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 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 8.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1610); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879); Other (1754-1769); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004431
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO6557 (second identifier 24445)
- National record
- record SW 72 NE 4; monument 426909
- Wikidata
- Q31114651
Sources
References
- Borlase, W. 1754. Antiquities Historical and Monumental of the County of Cornwall, 290.
- Borlase, W. 1769. The antiquities of Cornwall, London: W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 312.
- Cotton, M.A. 1958-9. Cornish Cliff Castles, Proc West Cornwall Fld Club, 2, 3, 119.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 458.