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Trereen Dinas

Cornwall, England · Atlas EN0655

Trereen Dinas is a promontory fort in Zennor, Cornwall, England.

Other names on the record: Gurnard's Head and Gurnards Head.

It is recorded as extant, with a partial bivallate rampart form, surface evidence of earthen bank and stone wall, and an enclosed area of 3 hectares.

Banks or ramparts are the remains most likely to be visible.

The topographic record places it on a coastal promontory, at 67 m, and facing north.

Recorded land use includes coastal grassland.

Dating evidence is recorded for 400 BC–AD 50 (Artefactual). Reliability is recorded as B - Medium.

A scheduled monument number is recorded (1004300).

Location

Atlas number
EN0655 (655)
Country
England
Current county or unitary authority
Cornwall
Historic county
Cornwall
Parish, community, or townland
Zennor
National Grid reference
SW43233865
Latitude
50.19200
Longitude
-5.59893
Altitude
67 m

Form and condition

Type
promontory fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
partial bivallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
2
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
Number of ditches
3
Possible original entrances
1
Breaks through the ramparts
0
Enclosed area
3 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank and stone wall
Enclosing works, excavated
earthen bank and stone wall
Also recorded
ditches
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (South)

Landscape

Topographic position
coastal promontory
Aspect
north
Land use
coastal grassland

Dating

Dating
400 BC–AD 50
Dating evidence
Artefactual
Dating reliability
B - Medium

Interior and investigation

Interior surface
curvilinear platforms
Interior excavation
roundhouses
Finds
pottery and metal
Investigations
1st Identified Written Reference (1857); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1877); Excavation (1939); Other (1978); Other (1987); Other (1961-1975)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
1004300
HER
Cornwall and Scilly MCO6582 (second identifier 30838)
National record
record SW 43 NW 2; monument 423548
Wikidata
Q31114715

Sources

References

  1. Brown, I. 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales. Oxford: Windgather Press/ Oxbow Books.
  2. Cotton, M.A. 1958-9. Cornish Cliff Castles, Proc West Cornwall Fld Club, 2, 3, 119.
  3. Edmonds, R. 1857, Celtic Antiquities of the Land's End District.
  4. 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.
  5. Gordon, A.S.R. 1940. The excavation of Gurnard's Head, an Iron Age cliff castle in western Cornwall, Archaeol J, 97, 96-111.
  6. Nowakowski, J.A. 1987. Gurnard's Head, Zennor., West Penwith, National Trust West Penwith Archaeological Survey, Cornwall Archaeological Unit Report 1987R007.
  7. Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 455.