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HER Number:889
Name:FROXTON WOOD CASTLE - Iron Age round, Romano British round, Medieval castle

Summary

A roughly circular enclosure, 70m across, with distinct corners in the north, east and south, and interior rectangular platform 10.0m by 8.0m, terraced into the hillslope.

Grid Reference:SX 2542 9970
Parish:Whitstone, North Cornwall, Cornwall
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Protected Status

  • Scheduled Monument CO963: Froxton Wood Castle 280yds (250m) SW of Froxton Farm

Other References/Statuses

  • National Mapping Programme (Morph No.): 1086.13
  • OS No. (OS Quarter-sheet and OS No.): SX29NE 2
  • Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 889
  • SMR No. (OS Quarter-sheet and SMR No.): SX29NE 2

Monument Type(s):

  • ROUND (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • ROUND (Romano British - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • CASTLE? (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Full description

This earthwork is a roughly circular enclosure, 70m across, but with distinct corners in the north, east and south. On the best preserved south-west side, the ditch is up to 1.4m deep with an outer counterscarp bank up to 0.8m high. It is much reduced by ploughing elsewhere. The entrance was probably on the east. In the interior is a rectangular platform 10.0m by 8.0m, terraced into the hillslope (h1). Peter Rose suggests that this enclosure may be a medieval earthwork, and not a round. Reasons are the sub-rectangular shape and the rectangular platform within the enclosure. The enclosure is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs (p1,p2) and was plotted during the Cornwall NMP.

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Site history:
1: 1973. OS
2: 1973. MERCER / DOE
3: 1976. NDJ / CCRA
4: 1981. WESTON / DOE
5: 1983. SHEPPARD / DOE
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<1> Polsue, J (Editor), 1867-72, Lake's Parochial History of Cornwall, VOL 4, 322 (Bibliographic reference). SCO4139.

RAF, 1946, 3G/TUD/UK208 PTII 5113-4 (Photographic Record). SCO11350.

<2> Page, W (Editor), 1906, Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, VOL I, 470 (Bibliographic reference). SCO4068.

CCC, 1995, BKS 9557 012-3 (Photographic Record). SCO18496.

<3> Peter, OB, 1902, Ancient Earth-Fenced Town and Village Sites of Cornwall, VOL XV, 113 (Article in Journal). SCO5138.

<4> Lysons, D & S, 1814, Magna Britannia, VOL 3, CORNWALL, CXXLVII (Bibliographic reference). SCO3885.

Sources / Further Reading

[p1]SCO11350 - Photographic Record: RAF. 1946. 3G/TUD/UK208 PTII 5113-4. ABP.
[1]SCO4139 - Bibliographic reference: Polsue, J (Editor). 1867-72. Lake's Parochial History of Cornwall. VOL 4, 322.
[p2]SCO18496 - Photographic Record: CCC. 1995. BKS 9557 012-3. ACP.
[2]SCO4068 - Bibliographic reference: Page, W (Editor). 1906. Victoria History of the County of Cornwall. VOL I, 470.
[3]SCO5138 - Article in Journal: Peter, OB. 1902. Ancient Earth-Fenced Town and Village Sites of Cornwall. JRIC. 15. VOL XV, 113.
[4]SCO3885 - Bibliographic reference: Lysons, D & S. 1814. Magna Britannia. VOL 3, CORNWALL, CXXLVII.

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

Related records: none recorded

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