Prideaux Castle

DTM- (Digital Terrain Model, i.e. No buildings or foliage) Ringed by trees alongside the west of Prideaux Woods, just to the north east of the Eden Project lies the small but complex contour hillfort, Prideaux Castle. Chance finds of flints, slingstones ,stone axe and a sherd of South-West Decorated pottery from the interior. This suggests an Iron Age date, 400-50 BC. A prehistoric cup-marked stone was also found on the site. First written record in 1813. Last site visit in 1998 by the Cornwall Archaeological Unit. No known excavation. Iron Age tribal association (conjecture based on location): Dumnonii (Scheduled Monument) [Any descriptive text attributed to the Atlas of Hillforts & Historic England websites]