Trencrom Castle

DTM- (Digital Terrain Model, i.e. No buildings or foliage) Atop Trencrom Hill overlooking Carbis Bay 2km to the north lies the small contour hillfort, Trencrom Castle. This Irregular shaped fort was much robbed for stone in antiquity but with hints of possible Neolithic origins was found to contain up to 20 hut platforms. Much degraded by quarrying and mineral prospecting pits. Post medieval stone splitting & quarrying. Donated to National Trust in 1946 as a war memorial. Site now heavily overgrown. First written reference in 1769 by W. Borlase. Surveyed at large scale in 1914 by Charles Henderson who described it as a ‘Neolithic City’. Surveyed in 1981 by C. Weatherhill who wrote of finds including late Iron Age pottery and possible Saxon material. Details lost. Last site visit in 2006 by the Hillfort Study Group. No recorded excavations, hence undated. Iron Age tribal association (conjecture based on location): Dumnonii (Scheduled Monument) [Any descriptive text attributed to the Atlas of Hillforts & Historic England websites]