Location
- Atlas number
- EN0656 (656)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Newquay
- National Grid reference
- SW8253063050
- Latitude
- 50.42687
- Longitude
- -5.06327
- Altitude
- 32 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 8
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 8, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 8
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 3.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- coastal grassland
- Water source
- stream
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures, curvilinear platforms, and other roundhouse evidence
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881); Earthwork Survey (1983); Geophysical Survey (1983); Other (2001); Other (2006); Other (2007); Excavation (1939-1949); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006712
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO6584 (second identifier 4127)
- National record
- record SW 86 SW 1; monument 429322
- Wikidata
- Q31114727
Sources
References
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- Catling, C. 2012. Shrines and smelting. Excavating Trevelgue Head. Current Archaeol, 267, 20-27.
- 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.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 453.
- Hammon A. 2005. The Iron age and Romano-British mammal and fish remains from Trevelgue Head Promontory Fort, Newquay, Cornwall, excavated in 1939 by C K Croft Andrew, Report No 3-2005, Centre for Archaeology.
- Hencken, H.O. 1932. The Archaeology of Cornwall and Scilly, 124-125.
- Horn, J. Forthcoming. The dating of hillforts in Britain and Ireland. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
- Nowakowski, J.A. and Quinnell, H. 2011. Trevelgue head, Cornwall : the importance of CK Croft Andrew's 1939 excavations for prehistoric and Roman Cornwall. Cornwall : Cornwall Council.
- Polsue, J. ed. 1867-72. Lake's Parochial History of Cornwall, Vol 1, 453.