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Demelza Castle
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN4268
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4268 (4268)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Wenn
- National Grid reference
- SW977636
- Latitude
- 50.43769
- Longitude
- -4.84994
- Altitude
- 107 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1309); Other (1750); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005452
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly 21483
- National record
- record SW 96 SE 6; monument 430589
- Wikidata
- Q31114793
Sources
References
- Hals, W. 1750. Complete history of Cornwall, Part II being the parochial history, Exeter: Andrew Brice.
- Polsue, J. ed. 1872. In Lake's Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, IV, 315, 317.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 470.