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Hilton Wood Castle
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN4267
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4267 (4267)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Whitstone
- National Grid reference
- SX25229969
- Latitude
- 50.77041
- Longitude
- -4.48023
- Altitude
- 76 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Footprint
- 0.76 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1814); Other (1974); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1884-1885)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004663
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly 888
- National record
- record SX 29 NE 1; monument 436439
- Wikidata
- Q31114792
Sources
References
- Lake, W. 1867. History of Cornwall, 4, 322.
- Lysons, D. and Lysons, S. 1814. Magna Britannia. Vol 3, Cornwall, CCXLVII.