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Giant's Castle, St Mary's
Isles of Scilly, England · Atlas EN1144
Location
- Atlas number
- EN1144 (1144)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Isles of Scilly
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Mary's
- National Grid reference
- SV92451006
- Latitude
- 49.91155
- Longitude
- -6.28543
- Altitude
- 40 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- built-up land and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1756); Excavation (1940); Other (1978); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889-1890); Excavation (1939-1945); Other (2010-2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011935
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO30538 (second identifier 7536)
- National record
- record SV 91 SW 41; monument 304067
- Wikidata
- Q31077741
Sources
References
- Ashbee, P. 1974. Ancient Scilly: from the first farmers to the early Christians: an introduction and survey, Newton Abott, David and Charles, 211-12, 221, 218, 321.
- Borlase, W. 1756. Observations on the Ancient and Present State of the Islands of Scilly, 17.
- Cotton, M.A. 1958-9. Cornish Cliff Castles, Proc West Cornwall Fld Club, 2, 3, 119.
- Gray, A. 1972. Prehistoric Habitation Sites on the Isles of Scilly, Cornish Archaeol, 11, 38.
- Hencken, HO. 1932. The Archaeology of Cornwall and Scilly, 31, 308.
- Johns C. 2012. Isles of Scilly Historic Environment Research Framework: resource assessment and research agenda, Report No 12R070, Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Cornwall County Council.
- O'Neil, B.H. St J. 1961. Isles of Scilly, MOW Guide. 15.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 459-60.