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Rame Head
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0650
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0650 (650)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Maker-with-Rame
- National Grid reference
- SX418482
- Latitude
- 50.31322
- Longitude
- -4.22316
- Altitude
- 80 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken, built-up land, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Other (1980-1989); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004510
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO6570 (second identifier 6000)
- National record
- record SW 44 NW 1; monument 437403
- Wikidata
- Q31114663
Sources
References
- Cotton, M.A. 1958-9. Cornish Cliff Castles, Proc West Cornwall Fld Club, 2, 3, 119.
- Harris, G. and Fl, 1963. Essays and Notes on the Rame Peninsula, Unpublished MS At RIC, 357.
- Henderson, C. 1914. Notebooks of Parochial Antiquities, Unpublished MS At RIC, 478.
- Sheppard, P. 1974. PH checklist, Cornish Archaeol, 13, 73.