Kemijack (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Kenidjack; Karnjek

In the civil parish of St Just.
In the historic county of Cornwall.
Modern Authority of Cornwall.
1974 county of Cornwall.
Medieval County of Cornwall.

OS Map Grid Reference: SW35453263
Latitude 50.13449° Longitude -5.70296°

Kemijack has been described as a Timber Castle but is rejected as such.

There are earthwork remains.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.

Comments

There is a Kenidjack Castle which is various described as a Neolithic site, a Bronze Age settlement and an Iron Age fort. PastScape report is 'The earthwork remains of an Iron Age cliff castle or hillfort. The monument has three ramparts and ditches on the north east side and two on the south west side. The interior contains some hollows which may be hut circles or evidence of quarrying.'
Harvey presumably quoting for earlier authors probably ultimately Borlase.

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Heritage List for England Scheduled Monument Number 1004388, Legacy Scheduled Monument Number co585
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 421757.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 29782.

Books
- Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (London: Methuen and Co)
  Cornish, J.B., 1906, 'Ancient Earthworks' in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Cornwall Vol. 1 p. 453, 460 online copy
  Lysons, D. and S., 1814, Magna Britannia Vol. 3 Cornwall online transcription
  Borlase, William, 1769, The Antiquities of Cornwall (Reprinted 1973, printed in 1769 by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, London. (First ed. published in 1754 under title: Observations on the antiquities of Cornwall )

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The bibliography owes much to various bibliographies produced by John Kenyon for the Council for British Archaeology, the Castle Studies Group and others.

Suggestions for finding online and/or hard copies of bibliographical sources can be seen at this link.
Minor archaeological investigations, such as watching brief reports, and some other 'grey' literature is most likely to be held by H.E.R.s but is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded here, or elsewhere, but some suggestions can be found here.

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