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The site known as Dunmere Castle, or locally as "Dunmere Camp", is a small prehistoric fortified enclosure. It lies in the parish of Lanivet, near Bodmin, in central Cornwall. The enclosure occupies the upper south-eastern slopes of a prominent hill, just above the very steep western side of the Camel valley, deep in Dunmere Wood. Oval in shape, it measures about 180 m by 135 m. It is enclosed by a single rampart about 3 m high, fronted by an outer ditch cut into the rock and about 2 m deep. To the north-west, a causewayed entrance, where the ends of the rampart turn slightly inwards, crosses the ditch. Inside, two slight hollows towards the south-south-east may be house terraces or charcoal-burning platforms. Historic England classes the site as a "slight univallate hillfort", a type of single-rampart enclosure used mainly between the 8th and 5th centuries BC, without giving a specific date for this site. The place-name element "Dun" itself means fort. The enclosure appears on the 1813 Ordnance Survey map. It was first described by Maclauchlan in 1849. In the Middle Ages it belonged to Bodmin Priory and was already wooded. Despite the woodland cover, the monument is well preserved and is expected to still contain archaeological deposits and environmental evidence.