Location
- Atlas number
- EN0653 (653)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Feock
- National Grid reference
- SW83774039
- Latitude
- 50.22382
- Longitude
- -5.03284
- Altitude
- 18 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 4 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.5 ha, 2.5 ha, 4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1880); Other (1968); Other (2004); Other (2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1019847
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO6574 (second identifier 18864)
- National record
- record SW 84 SW 13; monument 428842
- Wikidata
- Q31114697
Sources
- Atlas of Hillforts record
- Wikipedia
- Wikidata
- Historic England list entry
- Historic England research record
References
- Kirkham, G. 2005. Roundwood Quay, Feock, Cornwall, Unpublished report HES.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 465, 462.
- Parkes, C. 2010. Roundwood Cottage, Cornwall: archaeological watching brief, Cornwall Archaeological Unit Report No 10R054, Cornwall County Council.