Kestle Rings

DTM- (Digital Terrain Model, i.e. No buildings or foliage) Just to the northwest of Tregadillett overlooking the River Kensley lies the 'unusual complex multiple enclosure hillfort, Kestle Rings. West side hidden by forest and its rampart quarry cut in the past. (*Unless this is the remanets of excavations) First written reference by Lake's Parochial History of Cornwall in 1872. (Although the word Kestle derives from 'Chestell' in 1150AD) Partial *excavations by O.B. Peter in 1902 found spindle whorls, ground stone hammer/mace head, flint, iron pyrite nodules and sea pebbles. Finds in Launceston Museum. Additional trench cut found evidence of oven & hearth. Possible post-Roman burnt vessel recovered. Occupation debris suggest Neolithic or Bronze Age settlement with possible Medieval reuse of annex by a possible Medieval hut. Last site visit in 1974 Iron Age tribal association (conjecture based on location): Dumnonii (Scheduled Monument) [Any descriptive text attributed to the Atlas of Hillforts & Historic England websites]