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Shipman Head
Isles of Scilly, England ยท Atlas EN1142
Location
- Atlas number
- EN1142 (1142)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Isles of Scilly
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bryher
- National Grid reference
- SV874162
- Latitude
- 49.96446
- Longitude
- -6.36051
- Altitude
- 36 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 6.5 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 4.1 ha, 6.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Also recorded
- guard chambers
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Recesses/Guard Chambers (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Other (1978); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889-1890); Other (1901-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016174
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO31251 (second identifier 7276)
- National record
- record SV 81 NE 12; monument 303354
- Wikidata
- Q31077713
Sources
References
- Ashbee, P. 1974. Ancient Scilly: from the first farmers to the early Christians: an introduction and survey, Newton Abott, David and Charles, 203-4, 212, 321.
- Brown, I.W. 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales, Oxford: Windgather Press, 186.
- O'Neil, B.H. St J. 1961. Isles of Scilly, MOW Guide, 16.