Castle Dore

Castle Dore — or Castle Dôr — is an Iron Age hill fort near Golant in Cornwall [1]. It was probably occupied from the 5th or 4th centuries BC until the 1st century BC [1]. The perimeter of Castle Dore consists of two ditches [1]. The inner ditch is circular, measuring 79 metres in diameter internally, and the outer ditch arced round it from the north to the south-east before widening in the north east to form an entrance [1]. Archaeologist Ralegh Radford led excavations at Castle Dore in 1936 and '37 [1]. At the time of Radford's work, archaeologists tended to concentrate on the defences in the course of examining hillforts; Radford, however, investigated the interior and found postholes belonging to huts of at least two distinct phases of occupation [1].