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Penhale Point
Cornwall, England · Atlas EN0649
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0649 (649)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Perranzabuloe
- National Grid reference
- SW758591
- Latitude
- 50.38887
- Longitude
- -5.15551
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken, built-up land, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1851); Other (1883); Other (1970); Excavation (1983); Other (1983); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1973-1974)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016991
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO6562-65 (second identifier 19692)
- National record
- record SW 75 NE 19; monument 428150
- Wikidata
- Q31114658
Sources
References
- Central Excavation Unit 1986. Preservation by record: work of CEU 1975-85/42, Cornwall County Archaeology 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.
- Smith, G.G. 1984. Penhale coastal promontory fort Perranzabuloe, 1983, Cornish Archaeol, 23, 180.
- Smith G.H. 1988. Excavation of the Iron Age cliff promontory fort and of Mesolithic and neolithic flint working areas at Penhale Point, Holywell Bay, near Newquay, 1983, Cornish Archaeol, 27, 171-99.
- Thomas, R. 1851. Letters to the West Briton, At CSL, Redruth, No 40.
- Whitley, H.M. 1881-83. Note on paper read by H.M. Whitley on Cliff Castles in Perranzabuloe and Crantock, J Royal Inst Cornwall, 7, 288-293, plan.