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Denbury Camp
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3345
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3345 (3345)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Denbury and Torbryan
- National Grid reference
- SX81696851
- Latitude
- 50.50434
- Longitude
- -3.67021
- Altitude
- 152 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (West); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Earthwork Survey (1992); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003857
- HER
- Devon MDV8603
- National record
- record SX 86 NW 2; monument 446232
- Wikidata
- Q31114881
Sources
References
- Fox, A. 1952. Hill-slope forts and related earthworks in South-West England and South Wales, Archaeol J, 109, 1-22
- Fox, A. 1996. Prehistoric hillforts in Devon, Tiverton: Devon Books.
- 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.