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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: The Rumps
Country: England County: Cornwall Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Wadebridge  Nearest Village: New Polzeath
Map Ref: SW93408100  Landranger Map Number: 200
Latitude: 50.592078N  Longitude: 4.920296W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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 5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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The Rumps
The Rumps submitted by Bladup : The Rumps in the low winter morning Sun (Vote or comment on this photo)
Rumps Point is a double promontaried headland, one of which is spectacularly notable for its dinosaur like stone ridges rising from the sea. It juts out into the north Atlantic ocean to the north of Polzeath and the Camel Estuary. The fort is defended from the mainland by a large double row of banks and ditches cut right down into the bedrock at the narrowest part

There is a third rampart constructed further inland, for a sort of semi defended outer area.
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The Rumps submitted by TheCaptain : One of the local inhabitants (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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The Rumps submitted by Horatio : A double row of bank and ditches defences and showing the third that Paul mentions on one of his photo's. Its nice to see well delineated defences such as this as they're not so pronounced on the promontory forts I have visited in Wales, more eroded due to centuries of foot fall? (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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The Rumps submitted by Horatio : Well then, funny how things turned out. I was planning originally on Summer Solstice at my favourite gaff on the whole of Earth and that's Stonehenge but I had to make alternative plans, so after visiting the Hurlers for the first time this week on Bodmin Moo, I was so going to definitely observe the solstice here. But as it turned out after a week in Cornwall chasing around megalithic sites all... (8 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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The Rumps submitted by Bladup : The view from near the top over the eastern part of the Rumps. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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The Rumps submitted by Horatio : Overhead shot to show the configuration of the banks and ditches that have been cut in to the rock (Vote or comment on this photo)

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The Rumps submitted by Horatio : One of several drone shots I quickly grabbed before I had to get down (land) to watch the Summer Solstice sunset off this twin-headland Iron Age Fort. This view is looking East. (1 comment)

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The Rumps submitted by Bladup : The Rumps, A winter Sunrise over the forts defences

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The Rumps submitted by Bladup : The Rumps from the South West

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The Rumps submitted by theCaptain : The wonderful Rumps Point as seen from the cliffs to the west in 1986. It probably hasn't changed much since then!

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The Rumps submitted by Bladup : The Rumps from above (Photo courtesy of Cornwall National Landscape)

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The Rumps submitted by Bladup : The Rumps from the South East

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The Rumps submitted by Bladup : The Rumps from the South

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The Rumps submitted by Bladup : The Rumps, Looking over the defences

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The Rumps submitted by Bladup : The Rumps, A slight mound inside the fort, Near the defences

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The Rumps submitted by Bladup : The Rumps looking North

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The Rumps submitted by Bladup : The Rumps, Outcrops on the Western hillock

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The Rumps submitted by Bladup : The Rumps looking South

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The Rumps submitted by Bladup : The Rumps, Outcrop on the Western hillock

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The Rumps submitted by Bladup : The Rumps from the South West

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The Rumps submitted by Bladup : Looking East over the Northern part of the fort

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The Rumps submitted by Bladup : Looking at The Rumps from the South East

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The Rumps submitted by Bladup : The Rumps, Looking South over the defences

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The Rumps submitted by Bladup : The Rumps, Looking from the Eastern hillock towards the stoney Western hillock

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The Rumps submitted by Bladup : The Rumps, Outcrops on the Western hillock within the fort looking over to the Eastern hillock

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Re: The Rumps by TheCaptain on Thursday, 08 June 2017
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Rumps Point visit, September 2014

I wanted to have a walk round the cliffs of Rumps point, but remember from many years ago that its a long walk, with nowhere near to park, so was pleased when I looked at a newer version of the OS 25000 map that there is now a car park marked right out at Pentire Farm, from where a walk round the headland is not too far. It's a long narrow lane out to the farm, passing a NT centre and carpark, and getting to the farm they ask for £1 in the honesty box for upkeep of the parking area. Well done to them for making this available to all.

The Rumps is a fantastic double promontaried headland, one of which is spectacularly notable for its dinosaur like stone ridges rising from the sea. The fort is defended from the mainland by a large double row of banks and ditches cut right down into the bedrock at the narrowest part, and with a third rampart constructed further inland, for a sort of semi defended outer area.

It's beautiful out here, despite the sea being as flat as a millpond, so no waves crashing about over it all. Just offshore is the Mouls Island (Puffin Island to the coastal cruises), and underneath the ramparts of the headland is "Seals Cave". There were a lot of people out here walking, some of whom said that seals had been seen in the sea below, although we never saw any. The headland was however inhabited by a load of sheep, often making a stand and not letting me walk round the paths where they were grazing. There was also rabbits and lots of various birds, including at one point a buzzard and two kestrels fighting for the best hunting position on the cliff rocks.

Following a pasty lunch sat on the ramparts, we walked back up to the main headland and around to Pentire Point, which has even more superb views right over the entrance to Camel Estuary, with the beaches at Polzeath and the Doombar, and beyond that down to Trevose Head and Newquay. What a fabulous place, once more thanks to the farmers for opening this up to the less fit masses.
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