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Defensive enclosure at Castle Hill is a prehistoric hillfort located in Cornwall, England. The site comprises a fortified enclosure defined by defensive earthworks typical of Iron Age settlement patterns in the southwest peninsula. Its physical character is marked by substantial banks and ditches that would have served both defensive and boundary-defining functions for the Iron Age community that occupied it. The monument represents an important example of the fortified settlements that characterised Iron Age Cornwall during the later prehistoric period.
Defensive enclosure at Castle Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004256. View the official record →
Defensive enclosure at Castle Hill is a prehistoric hillfort located in Cornwall, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004256.
Defensive enclosure at Castle Hill 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 1004256.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 875m SSE of Bodrugan Barton (2.2 km), Wayside cross at Beacon Cross, 265m east of Lanuah (2.5 km), Wayside cross 35m south of Heligan House (2.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Defensive enclosure at Castle Hill'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.
Defensive enclosure at Castle Hill stands on Middle Devonian (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Middle Devonian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.