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Latitude: 50.1526 / 50°9'9"N
Longitude: -5.6395 / 5°38'22"W
OS Eastings: 140115.001308
OS Northings: 34407.454026
OS Grid: SW401344
Mapcode National: GBR DXG8.MMP
Mapcode Global: VH058.6FHB
Entry Name: Part of a prehistoric field system at Tor Noon
Scheduled Date: 1 February 1985
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1007263
English Heritage Legacy ID: CO 1087
County: Cornwall
Civil Parish: Morvah
Traditional County: Cornwall
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: Pendeen
Church of England Diocese: Truro
The monument includes part of an extensive prehistoric field system, situated on the north and west facing slopes surrounding Tor Noon. The field system survives as a series of low and irregular earth and stone banks measuring up to 0.5m high with many small rectangular and other irregular shaped fields suggesting an Iron Age or earlier date. There is a possibility of more than one phase of prehistoric field construction which have produced an overall palimpsest of fields.
Further archaeological remains in the vicinity are the subject of separate schedulings.
Sources: HER:-
PastScape Monument No:-424411
Source: Historic England
The part of a prehistoric field system at Tor Noon survives comparatively well and appears to represent a development of different types of field system through time. It will contain important archaeological and environmental evidence relating to this development, the chronologies and construction of the field system through time and the relationship between these adaptations to possible climatic or social changes and the introduction of new foodstuffs or general agricultural practices.
Source: Historic England
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