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Milber Down, Coffinswell
Devon, England · Atlas EN3344
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3344 (3344)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Coffinswell
- National Grid reference
- SX88456985
- Latitude
- 50.51774
- Longitude
- -3.57492
- Altitude
- 125 m
Form and condition
- Type
- multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2.3 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1.1 ha, 1.3 ha, 2.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (South east); Hollow Way (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- Other (1972); Other (2013); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888-1890); Excavation (1937-1938); Other (2001-2017)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003178
- HER
- Devon MDV8649
- National record
- record SX 86 NE 3; monument 446096
- Wikidata
- Q31114862
Sources
References
- Brown, I. 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales, Oxford: Windgather Press/Oxbow Books.
- Fox, A., Radford, C.A.R. and Shorter, A.H. 1949-50. Report on the excavations at Milber Down, 1937-38, Proc Devonshire Archaeol Explor Soc, 4, 27-66.
- Fox, A. 1952. Hill-slope forts and related earthworks in South-West England and South Wales, Archaeol J, 109, 1-22.
- Griffith, F.M. and Wilkes, E.M. 2011. In the footsteps of pioneering women: some recent work on Devon hillforts, In Pearce, S, (ed). Recent archaeological work in South-Western Britain, BAR British Series 548.