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The Round, Kenwyn
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN4272
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4272 (4272)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kenwyn
- National Grid reference
- SW78264625
- Latitude
- 50.27452
- Longitude
- -5.11335
- Altitude
- 91 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
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 2.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1880); Other (1965)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016065
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly 19224
- National record
- record SW 7 4 NE 15; monument 427852
- Wikidata
- Q31114811
Sources
References
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria history of the County of Cornwall, Vol I, 466, The Victoria History of the Counties of England.