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Kenidjack Castle
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN4266
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4266 (4266)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Just
- National Grid reference
- SW35453263
- Latitude
- 50.13448
- Longitude
- -5.70337
- Altitude
- 46 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1728); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1876); Other (1879); Other (2006); Other (1960-1975)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004388
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly 29782
- National record
- record SW 33 SE 51; monument 421757
- Wikidata
- Q31114780
Sources
References
- Borlase, W.C. Archaeological discoveries in the Parishes of St Just-in-Penwith and Sennen, J Royal Inst Cornwall, 6, 190-212.
- Cotton, M.A. 1958-9. Cornish Cliff Castles, Proc West Cornwall Fld Club, 2, 3, 119.
- Johnson, N. and Rose, P. 1982. Defended settlement in Cornwall - an illustrated discussion, In ed. D. Miles, The Romano-British countryside: Studies in rural settlement and economy, BAR Brit Ser 103, 151-207.
- Norden, J, 1728. Speculi Britanniae Pars.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria history of the County of Cornwall, Vol I, 453, 460, The Victoria History of the Counties of England.
- Russell, V. 1971. West Penwith survey, 38, 50.
- Sharpe, A. 1998. An archaeological assessment of Kenidjack Farm, Valley and Cliff, St Just in Penwith, Unpublished report Historic Environment Service, Truro.