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Redcliff Castle
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0651
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0651 (651)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Eval
- National Grid reference
- SW 8492 6965
- Latitude
- 50.48699
- Longitude
- -5.03353
- Altitude
- 65 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 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1849); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881); Other (1951); Other (1979); Other (1970-1989)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1021006
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO6571 (second identifier 21931)
- National record
- record SW 86 NW 3; monument 429278
- Wikidata
- Q31114670
Sources
References
- Cotton, M.A. 1958-9. Cornish Cliff Castles, Proc West Cornwall Fld Club, 2, 3, 119.
- Henderson, C. 1914. Notebooks of Parochial Antiquities, Unpublished MS At RIC. Vol III, 89.
- Henderson, C. 1930. A Survey of Cornwall, CPRE. Thompson, W.H. (ed).,CH 9, 57.
- 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.
- Nankivall, F. 1962. The principal antiquities of the Newquay-Padstow District, Cornwall Archaeol Soc Field Guide 7.
- Pattison, S.R. 1849. On Some Earth-Works Near Newquay, on The North Coast of Cornwall, Annual Report of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, 31, 36.
- Polsue, J. ed. 1867-72. Lake's Parochial History of Cornwall, Vol 1, 374.