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Willapark, Boscastle
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0661
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0661 (661)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Forrabury and Minster
- National Grid reference
- SX092912
- Latitude
- 50.68902
- Longitude
- -4.70267
- Altitude
- 60 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 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1876); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1884); Other (1976); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO6586 (second identifier 60603)
- National record
- record SX 09 SE 6; monument 432078
- Wikidata
- Q31114487
Sources
References
- Fox, A. 1962. Southern Britain in the Iron Age, 38.
- Maclean, J. 1873. A Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor, Vol 1, London: Nicholls and Sons.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 460.