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HER: Cornwall and Scilly MCO72 (26028)
NMR: SX 07 SW 6 (431834)
SM: 1004488
NGR: SX 0390 7000
X: 203969 Y: 70008 (OSGB36)
Small, multivallate, hillslope hillfort, with annexe and outworks, located on prominent NW-facing ridge slope overlooking valley of tributary of River Camel. Moderate surrounding slopes with two re-entrant stream valleys to NE and W. Internal area 0.8ha. Two closely-spaced, concentric inner ramparts with ditches, outermost diverging to NW. Annexe to W, with rampart and outer ditch. Outworks, c. 140m to NW from main enclosed areas, form two further diverging ramparts with outer ditches. Annexe has very strong rampart to 3m high with 1.1m deep ditch. Outwork ramparts to 1.5m high and ditches to 1.2m deep. Probable original entrances through inner and outer banks on W, now part of drive to Pencarrow House, which cuts through the annexe on W, crosses central enclosed area and cuts through ramparts to SE. Inner rampart to 3.4m high with rock-cut ditch to 1.1m deep. Site in good condition and lies within a Registered Park and Garden (1643) and managed woodland of Pencarrow House. On 1st Ed. OS map (1881). Undated.
Citizen Science: ✗
Reliability of Data: Confirmed
Reliability of Interpretation: Confirmed
X: -530488 Y: 6532783 (EPSG: 3857)
Longitude: -4.765453000365798 Latitude: 50.49692493311093 (EPSG:4326)
Country: England
Current County or Unitary Authority: Cornwall
Historic County: Cornwall
Current Parish/Community/Council/Townland: Egloshayle
Good condition within managed woodland of Pencarrow House. Site lies within a Registered Park and Garden (1643).
| Extant | ✓ |
| Cropmark | ✗ |
| Likely Destroyed | ✗ |
Wooded registered park site.
| Woodland | ✓ |
| Commercial Forestry Plantation | ✗ |
| Parkland | ✗ |
| Pasture (Grazing) | ✗ |
| Arable | ✗ |
| Scrub/Bracken | ✗ |
| Bare Outcrop | ✗ |
| Heather/Moorland | ✗ |
| Heath | ✗ |
| Built-up | ✗ |
| Coastal Grassland | ✗ |
| Other | ✓ |
Small, multivallate, hillslope hillfort, with annexe and outworks, located on prominent NW-facing ridge slope overlooking valley of tributary of River Camel. Moderate surrounding slopes with two re-entrant stream valleys to NE and W.
| Contour Fort | ✗ |
| Partial Contour Fort | ✗ |
| Promontory Fort | ✗ |
| Hillslope Fort | ✓ |
| Level Terrain Fort | ✗ |
| Marsh Fort | ✗ |
| Multiple Enclosure Fort | ✗ |
| Hilltop | ✗ |
| Coastal Promontory | ✗ |
| Inland Promontory | ✗ |
| Valley Bottom | ✗ |
| Knoll/Hillock/Outcrop | ✗ |
| Ridge | ✗ |
| Cliff/Plateau-edge/Scarp | ✗ |
| Hillslope | ✓ |
| Lowland | ✗ |
| Spur | ✓ |
Dominant Topographic Feature: Spur
| North | ✗ |
| Northeast | ✗ |
| East | ✗ |
| Southeast | ✗ |
| South | ✗ |
| Southwest | ✗ |
| West | ✗ |
| Northwest | ✓ |
| Level | ✗ |
Altitude: 140.0m
N/A
None.
Reliability: D - None
| Pre 1200BC | ✗ |
| 1200BC - 800BC | ✗ |
| 800BC - 400BC | ✗ |
| 400BC - AD50 | ✗ |
| AD50 - AD400 | ✗ |
| AD400 - AD 800 | ✗ |
| Post AD800 | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✓ |
| Pre Hillfort: | None |
| Post Hillfort: | None |
On 1st Ed. OS map (1881). Field investigations Ordnance Survey 1956, 1972.
| 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881): | OS map. |
| Other (None): | Field investigations OS. |
None.
None
| None | ✓ |
| Spring | ✗ |
| Stream | ✗ |
| Pool | ✗ |
| Flush | ✗ |
| Well | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| No Known Features | ✓ |
| Round Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Rectangular Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Curvilinear Platforms | ✗ |
| Other Roundhouse Evidence | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| No Known Excavation | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
None
| No Known Geophysics | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
None
| No Known Finds | ✓ |
| Pottery | ✗ |
| Metal | ✗ |
| Metalworking | ✗ |
| Human Bones | ✗ |
| Animal Bones | ✗ |
| Lithics | ✗ |
| Environmental | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| APs Not Checked | ✓ |
| None | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
Probable original entrances through inner and outer banks on W, now part of drive to Pencarrow House, which cuts through annexe on W, crosses central area and cuts through ramparts on W and SE. Status of gap on SE not determined.
| 3: | Drive to Pencarrow House cuts through site. |
| 2: | Possible? Status of gap on SE not determined. |
Guard Chambers: ✗
Chevaux de Frise: ✗
| 1. Simple Gap (West): | Gap though inner rampart. |
| 1. In-turned (West): | Gap through outer rampart; possibly inturned. |
| 2. Simple Gap (South east): | Possible? Status of gap on SE not determined. |
Complex. Two closely-spaced, concentric inner ramparts with ditches, outermost diverging somewhat to NW. Annexe to W, with rampart and outer ditch, and c. 140m to NW from main enclosed areas lie outworks as two further diverging ramparts with outer ditches. Inner rampart to 3.4m high with rock-cut ditch to 1.1m deep. Annexe has very strong rampart to 3m high with 1.1m deep ditch. Outwork ramparts to 1.5m high and ditches to 1.2m deep.
| Area 1: | 0.8ha. |
| Total: | 0.8ha. |
Total Footprint Area: Noneha.
None
| ✗ | None |
| ✓ | Rampart to annexe not included on W. |
| NE Quadrant: | 2 |
| SE Quadrant: | 2 |
| SW Quadrant: | 2 |
| NW Quadrant: | 2 |
| Total: | 2 |
| Partial Univallate | ✗ |
| Univallate | ✗ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✗ |
| Bivallate | ✓ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✗ |
| Partial Univallate | ✗ |
| Univallate | ✗ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✗ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
None
| None | ✗ |
| Earthen Bank | ✓ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Rubble | ✗ |
| Wall-walk | ✗ |
| Evidence of Timber | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| None | ✗ |
| Earthen Bank | ✗ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Murus Duplex | ✗ |
| Timber-framed | ✗ |
| Timber-laced | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| No Known Excavation | ✓ |
| Other | ✗ |
| ✗ | None |
| ✓ | Ditches to annexe not included. |
Number of Ditches: 2
| ✓ | Annexe to W, with rampart and outer ditch. Rampart to 3m high with 1.1m deep ditch. |
Maclean, J. 1876. A Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor, Vol 1, 404.
Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 463.
Polsue, J. ed. 1867-72. Lake's Parochial History of Cornwall, Vol 1, 319
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