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Cargoll
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0660
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0660 (660)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Newlyn East
- National Grid reference
- SW81655670
- Latitude
- 50.36961
- Longitude
- -5.07195
- Altitude
- 84 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and hillslope
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1840); 1st Identified Written Reference (1851); Other (1880); Other (1970)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1019496
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO7731 (second identifier 25050)
- National record
- record SW 85 NW 6; monument 428996
- Wikidata
- Q31114748
Sources
References
- Henderson, C. 1914. Notebooks of Parochial Antiquities, Unpublished MS At RIC, Vol III, 140.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 467.
- Thomas, R. 1851. Letters to the West Briton, At CSL, Redruth, 21/11/1851, 5.