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HER Number:170576
Name:WEEK ORCHARD - Medieval castle, Medieval settlement

Summary

An area of earthworks, approx. 0.5m high, lie to the north of the present buildings of Week Orchard. The earthworks appear to overlie an irregular mound.

Grid Reference:SS 2346 0035
Parish:Week St Mary, North Cornwall, Cornwall
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Protected Status: None recorded

Other References/Statuses

  • Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 170576

Monument Type(s):

Full description

An area of earthworks, approx. 0.5m high, lie to the north of the present buildings of Week Orchard. The earthworks appear to overlie an irregular mound, approx 30m east-west by approx 25m and up to 1.5m high, which may conceivably be the remains of a small castle (b1) (RIS-PCH field notes 426).


<1> Gover, JEB, 1948, Place-Names of Cornwall (Bibliographic reference). SCO3402.

Sources / Further Reading

[1]SCO3402 - Bibliographic reference: Gover, JEB. 1948. Place-Names of Cornwall.

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

Related records: none recorded