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Prestonbury Castle
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3346
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3346 (3346)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Drewsteignton
- National Grid reference
- SX746900
- Latitude
- 50.69618
- Longitude
- -3.77564
- Altitude
- 244 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 9 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1.4 ha, 2.6 ha, 9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); In-turned (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885); Other (1972); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003861
- HER
- Devon MDV8439
- National record
- record SX 79 SW 5; monument 445780
- Wikidata
- Q31114885
Sources
References
- 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.
- Wall, J.C. 1906. Ancient Earthworks, In ed W. Page, The Victoria County History of the County of Devon, Vol I, 595, London: James Street, Haymarket.