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Kelsey Head
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN3718
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3718 (3718)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cubert
- National Grid reference
- SW765608
- Latitude
- 50.40442
- Longitude
- -5.14643
- Altitude
- 46 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 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- annex and 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
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1849); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1880); Other (1881-1883); Other (1950-1969)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1020026
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO6551 (second identifier 60161)
- National record
- record SW 76 SE 3; monument 428415
- Wikidata
- Q31114769
Sources
References
- Harding, J.R. 1950. Prehistoric Sites on the North Cornwall Coast. Antiq J, 30, 163-165.
- Nankivall, F. 1962. The principal antiquities of the Newquay-Padstow District, Cornwall Archaeol Soc Field Guide 7.
- Pattison, S.R. 1849. Reference in Annual Report Royal Inst Cornwall, 31, 36-7.
- Warner, R. B. 1967. Some new cliff-castles, Cornish Archaeol, 6, 111.
- Whitley, H.M. 1881-83. Note on paper read by H.M. Whitley on Cliff Castles in Perranzabuloe and Crantock, J Royal Inst Cornwall, 7, 288-293, plan 293.