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Tubby's Head
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0658
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0658 (658)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Agnes
- National Grid reference
- SW 69833 50485
- Latitude
- 50.30921
- Longitude
- -5.23405
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.45 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1880); Other (1960); Other (1985); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017017
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO6585 (second identifier 19500)
- National record
- record SW 65 SE 1; monument 426274
- Wikidata
- Q31114741
Sources
References
- Warner, R.B. 1967. Parish of St Agnes: checklist additions, Cornish Archaeol, 6, 97, 111.
- Warner, R.B. 1967. Some new cliff castles, Cornish Archaeol, 6, 111.