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Animal pound 90m ENE of Pound Cot is a prehistoric or early medieval livestock enclosure located in Cornwall. The monument consists of a roughly circular or oval earthwork constructed from stone or earth banks, designed to contain and manage livestock animals. Such pounds were essential features of rural settlement and subsistence economies throughout Cornwall's long history, serving both practical and possibly defensive functions in the management of community herds. The precise dating of this particular example remains uncertain without archaeological investigation, though comparable structures in the region range from Bronze Age through to medieval periods.
Animal pound 90m ENE of Pound Cot is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007294. View the official record →
Animal pound 90m ENE of Pound Cot is a prehistoric or early medieval livestock enclosure located in Cornwall. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007294.
Animal pound 90m ENE of Pound Cot is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1007294.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round (or petal) cairn on the summit of Leskernick Hill (10.1 km), Prehistoric and later enclosure containing a stone hut circle 1.2km NNE of Fernacre Farm (10.9 km), Five prehistoric round cairns and a ring cairn 920m NNE of Fernacre Farm (11 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Animal pound 90m ENE of Pound Cot's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Animal pound 90m ENE of Pound Cot stands on Teign Valley Group, bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.