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Winecove Point Complex
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0659
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0659 (659)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Merryn
- National Grid reference
- SW85427357
- Latitude
- 50.52241
- Longitude
- -5.02867
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.73 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.13 ha, 0.22 ha, 0.73 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Other Forms (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881); Other (1969)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004234
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO6588 (second identifier 21790)
- National record
- record SW 87 SE 11; SW87SE 12; SW87SE 15; monument 429505; 429510; 429519
- Wikidata
- Q31114744
Sources
References
- Cotton, M.A. 1958-9. Cornish Cliff Castles, Proc West Cornwall Fld Club, 2, 3, 119.
- Crawford, O.G.S. 1921. The Ancient Settlement at Harlyn Bay, Antiq J, 1, 298-299.
- Henderson, C. 1930. A Survey of Cornwall, CPRE, Thompson, W.H. (ed), CH 9, 57.
- 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.