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Willapark Head
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN4304
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4304 (4304)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tintagel
- National Grid reference
- SX 0632 8962
- Latitude
- 50.67458
- Longitude
- -4.74361
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 2.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1884); Other (1976); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly 23117
- National record
- record SX 08 NE 10; monument 431889
- Wikidata
- Q31114579
Sources
References
- Cotton, M.A. 1958. Cornish Cliff Castles, Proc West Cornwall Fld Club, 2, 3, 119.
- Fox, A. 1962. Southern Britain in the Iron Age, 38.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 460.