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Park Head
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0648
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0648 (648)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Eval
- National Grid reference
- SW84157080
- Latitude
- 50.49707
- Longitude
- -5.04496
- 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 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881); Other (1972); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO6559
- National record
- record SW 87 SW 7; monument 429566
- Wikidata
- Q31114371
Sources
References
- 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.
- Sheppard, P.A. 1978. St Eval Checklist, Cornish Archaeol, 17, 119.