Location
- Atlas number
- EN4270 (4270)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Luxulyan
- National Grid reference
- SX 0590 5567
- Latitude
- 50.36887
- Longitude
- -4.73077
- Altitude
- 125 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.81 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1813); 1st Identified Written Reference (1814); Other (1882); Other (1969); Other (1988); Other (1998); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006663
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly 5001
- National record
- record SX 05 NE 3; monument 431133
- Wikidata
- Q31114795
Sources
References
- Henderson, C. 1914. Notebooks of Parochial Antiquities, MS At RIC. Vol 3, 320.
- Lysons, D. and Lysons, S. 1814. Magna Britannia, Vol III, Cornwall, 247.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria history of the County of Cornwall, Vol I, 462, The Victoria History of the Counties of England.
- Smith, J.R. 1998. Prideaux Wood, Luxulyan: an archaeological assessment, Unpublished monograph Cornwall County Council, Cornwall Archaeological Unit.