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Burnt Hill, St Martin's
Isles of Scilly, England · Atlas EN1143
Location
- Atlas number
- EN1143 (1143)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Isles of Scilly
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Martin's
- National Grid reference
- SV936159
- Latitude
- 49.96557
- Longitude
- -6.27356
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- 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
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- Excavation (1953); Other (1978); Earthwork Survey (2008-2010); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MC030218 (second identifier 7125)
- National record
- record SV 91 NW 7; monument 303719
- Wikidata
- Q31077678
Sources
References
- Ashbee, P. 1974. Ancient Scilly: from the first farmers to the early Christians: an introduction and survey, Newton Abott, David and Charles, 321.
- Lewis, H.A. 1948. St Martin's, St Helen's and Tean, 9.
- O'Neil, B.H. St J. 1961. Isles of Scilly, MOW Guide. 16.
- Russell, V. 1980. Isles of Scilly Survey, 47.