Castallack Round
Castallack Round or Roundago is a prehistoric site near Castallack in Cornwall, England. It is a scheduled monument.[1]
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| Location | Near Castallack, Cornwall |
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| Coordinates | 50°4′26″N 5°34′7″W |
| OS grid reference | SW 448 254 |
| Type | Hillfort |
| History | |
| Periods | Iron Age |
| Designated | 29 September 1972 |
| Reference no. | 1004654 |
A "round" is a small circular embanked enclosure, with one entrance; they are common in Cornwall, and they date from the late Iron Age to the early post-Roman period.[1]
Description
The site is near the summit of a ridge overlooking the Lamorna valley. Part of the rampart survives; it is composed of large stones and slabs, height about 1.6 metres (5 ft 3 in) and width 1.8 metres (5 ft 11 in), forming an oval enclosure. There was originally a surrounding ditch. On the tithe map of 1840, the round is depicted as having a colonnade of stones leading from the entrance in the south to an inner circular enclosure; John Thomas Blight, describing it in 1865, found that these features had mostly disappeared.[1]
To the north-west of the round there are thick stone walls, height up to 0.9 metres (2 ft 11 in): the remains of a structure with an internal diameter of about 7.5 metres (25 ft). This is interpreted as a courtyard house, a type of building that developed in west Cornwall from the 2nd to 4th centuries AD.[1]
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