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MONUMENT NO. 426274

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Iron Age coastal promontory fort cut off from the mainland by approximately 20 metres of bank 2.3 metres wide and 0.9 metres high and ditch 3 metres wide with a causewayed entrance near its northern end. Alternatively, it is suggested to be a defended landing point, as a flat expanse of rock near the waterline could have provided a suitable natural quay.

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SW 698505 Cliff castle with simple entrance. (1)

This is a small sloping promontory cut off from the mainland
by about 20 metres of bank and ditch with a causewayed entrance
near the Northern end. Defensively in a very poor position the
"castle" is overlooked completely by the steeply sloping land
to the East.

It is just possible that the bank and ditch protected a landing
rather than enclosing a cliff castle as a flat expanse of rock
near the waterline could perhaps have provided a suitable
natural quay.

Published 1:2500 survey revised. (2)

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( 1) Cornwall Archaeological Society Cornish archaeology

(RB Warner) 6, 1967 Page(s)111

( 2) Field Investigators Comments

F1 ANK 02-APR-71

( 3) Scheduled Monument Notification

12-JUL-1999

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