Cornish promontory forts, commonly known in Cornwall as cliff castles, are coastal equivalents of the hill forts and Cornish "rounds" found on Cornish...

Brittany, the Orkney Islands, the Isle of Man, Devon, the Channel Islands and Cornwall. Only a few Irish promontory forts have been excavated and most date...

coasts, such as Ireland, Cornwall, Brittany and west Wales. Examples: Huelgoat; The Rumps and other promontory forts of Cornwall. Sloping Enclosure or Hill-slope...

an Iron Age promontory fort or 'cliff castle' close to Land's End in Cornwall. Maen Castle is one of only two fortified sites in Cornwall where Early...

Cornwall (/ˈkɔːrnwəl/; Cornish: Kernow [ˈkɛrnɔʊ] or [ˈkɛrnɔ]) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the...

the western end of St Austell Bay, in Cornwall, England. It is owned by the National Trust. It is the site of an Iron Age promontory fort. There are two...

been put forward, such as the name being a reference to dwellers in promontory forts, and an explanation hypothesised by Ann Ross in 1967 that the tribal...

Gear fort, Lescudjack Hillfort, Prideaux Castle, and Castle Dore. Promontory forts or cliff top forts were also common in the Iron Age and examples of these...

Ringforts or ring forts are small circular fortified settlements built during the Bronze Age, Iron Age and early Middle Ages up to about the year 1000 AD...

England. 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2020. "The Rumps promontory fort, St. Minver Highlands - Cornwall". Historic England. 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2020...

The Device Forts, also known as Henrician castles and blockhouses, were a series of artillery fortifications built to defend the coast of England and Wales...

put forward. These include the name being a reference to dwellers in promontory forts, and an explanation hypothesised by Ann Ross in 1967 that the tribal...

Penndinas) is an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII near Falmouth, Cornwall, England between 1540 and 1542. It formed part of the King's Device programme...

recovered from cuttings made by the army. Hillforts in Britain Promontory forts of Cornwall Historic England. "The Giant's Castle cliff castle, St Mary's...

lower on the promontory at approx 50 metres (160 ft) above sea level, and others on the Cornwall side of the river. R.R.Sellman; Aspects of Devon History...

Peninsula, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The name means a ruin or old wall in Cornish, possibly because the church was built from the ruins of West Stonehouse...

north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is about five miles (8.0 km) north of Redruth and ten miles (16 km) southwest of Newquay. An...

Peninsula. The natural site was used for a promontory fort ('cliff castle') in the Iron Age and the narrow neck of land was further excavated on the landward...

(0.62 mi) inland from Treryn Dinas, an Iron Age promontory fort, or cliff castle, with five lines of fortification. On the headland is the Logan Rock...

reference SW 934 810) is a twin-headland promontory at the north-east corner of Pentire Head in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The Rumps is attested...

civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish includes the villages of Zennor, Boswednack and Porthmeor and the hamlet of Treen. Zennor...

headland, cape, island promontory, bill, point, or spit. A point is generally considered a tapering piece of land projecting into a body of water that is less...

The prehistory of Cornwall spans an extensive timeframe, beginning with the earliest evidence for archaic human presence in Cornwall c. 225,000 years...

north-east of Newquay, Cornwall, England, next to Porth at the eastern end of Newquay Bay. It is the site of an Iron Age promontory fort with defensive...

 99. 3 June 1880. p. 4. Cornwall portal Trereen Dinas promontory fort site page on The Megalithic Portal Gurnard's Head cliff fort site page on The Modern...

Clifford's Tower and the Castles of York. London: English Heritage. ISBN 1-85074-673-7. Châtelain, André. (1983) Châteaux Forts et Féodalité en Ile de France...

Masua, Iglesias, south-western Sardinia Scoglio dell'Ulivo, Palmi Gargano Promontory, Zagare Bay, Apulia Praia da Dona Ana and Ponta da Piedade, Lagos Praia...

This is a list of scheduled monuments in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Monuments are listed by Historic England as part of the National Heritage List for...

moved back as the previous course of the path had collapsed. Just south of Trethias Island are three Promontory forts formed by earthworks designed to...

with the Iron Age promontory fort of Trevelgue Head, on the northern side. Porth’s full name is St Columb Porth, meaning "the port of St Columb." Historically...