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Maen Castle
Cornwall, England · Atlas EN0647
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0647 (647)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Sennen
- National Grid reference
- SW34762577
- Latitude
- 50.07267
- Longitude
- -5.70838
- Altitude
- 54 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Other
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and environmental material
- Investigations
- Excavation (1985); Other (1985); Other (1994); Earthwork Survey (1996); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1840-1849); 1st Identified Written Reference (1845-1850); Other (1876-1878); Excavation (1939-1948); Other (1960-1985)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006757
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO6558 (second identifier 16009)
- National record
- record SW 32 NW 1; monument 421208
- Wikidata
- Q31114653
Sources
References
- Blight, J.T. 1864. The cliff-castle at Mean, J Royal Inst Cornwall, 1 and 2, 8-11.
- Cotton, M.A. 1958-9. Cornish Cliff Castles, Proc West Cornwall Fld Club, 2, 3, 119.
- Crofts, C.B. 1949. Interim report of 1939 and 1948 seasons' excavations at Maen Castle, Cornwall, West Cornwall Field Club, Marazion.
- Crofts, C.B. 1954-5. Maen Castle, Sennen: the excavation of an Early Iron Age promontory fort, Proc West Cornwall Fld Club 1, 3, 98-115.
- Edmonds, R. 1848. On the Hill-Castles and Cliff-Castles of Penzance, Trans Penzance Natur Hist and Antiq Soc, 1, 341.
- Hencken, H.O. 1932. The Archaeology of Cornwall and Scilly, 124.
- Herring, PC. 1986. Mayon and Trevescan Cliffs, unpublished report copy At CAU, Vol 2, 28-34.
- Herring P. 1994. Repair to Maen Castle, Sennen, Cornwall. Unpublished assessment and evaluation report, Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Cornwall County Council.
- 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.
- Russell, V. 1971. West Penwith Survey, 39.
- Tithe Award. 1840s. Sennen. Field No 152.