Maen Castle

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker

Contributors: Maxime Guénette

Last modified Jan 29, 2025 11:04 AM — History

Maen Castle is an Iron Age promontory fort near Land's End in Cornwall.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/149003409

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
50.0727155, -5.7080356

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Maen Castle (800 BC - AD 100) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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Maen Castle makes connections with:

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Maen Castle receives connections from:

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Place type:
cape, promontory, hillfort, fort, tower (deprecated)

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and Maxime Guénette, 'Maen Castle: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/149003409> [accessed: 22 June 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/149003409 |title=Places: 149003409 (Maen Castle) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=June 22, 2025 11:00 am |publisher=Pleiades}}