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Bury Down, Lanraeth
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN4271
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4271 (4271)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lanraeth
- National Grid reference
- SX188594
- Latitude
- 50.40705
- Longitude
- -4.55103
- Altitude
- 175 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.4 ha, 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (West); Blocked (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1758); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1813); Other (1814); Other (1882); Other (1972); Excavation (1994); Geophysical Survey (1994); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 106635
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly 25125
- National record
- record SX 15 NE 1; monument 432087
- Wikidata
- Q31114799
Sources
References
- Borlase, W. 1758, The Natural History of Cornwall, 325.
- Lysons, D. and Lysons, S. 1814. Magna Britannia. Vol 3, Cornwall, 258.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria history of the County of Cornwall, Vol I, 466, The Victoria History of the Counties of England.