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Treryn Dinas
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0657
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0657 (657)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Levan
- National Grid reference
- SW39762218
- Latitude
- 50.04265
- Longitude
- -5.63621
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 0, SW 0, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and quarry hollows
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1960); Other (1993); Earthwork Survey (1994); Other (1997); Other (2006); 1st Identified Written Reference (1733-1766)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006733
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO6583 (second identifier 28291)
- National record
- record SW 32 SE 46; monument 421380
- Wikidata
- Q31114736
Sources
References
- Borlase, W. 1754. Antiquities Historical and Monumental of the County of Cornwall, 180, 344, 351.
- Blight, J.T. 1862. List of Antiquities in the Hundreds of Kerrier and Penwith.
- Cotton, M.A. 1958-9. Cornish Cliff Castles, Proc West Cornwall Fld Club, 2, 3, 119.
- Herring P. 1994. Repairs to Treryn Dinas Cliff Castle, St Levan.Publications, Unpublished assessment and evaluation reports, Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Cornwall County Council.
- 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, 460.
- Ratcliffe J. 1998. Treen and Rospletha Cliffs, Penberth Valley and Cove, Project No 7070, Unpublished assessment and evaluation report, Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Cornwall County Council,
- Russell, V. 1971. West Penwith Survey, 39.
- Sharp, A. 1992. Treryn Dinas: cliff castles reconsidered, Cornish Archaeol, 31, 65-8.