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Cranbrook Castle
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3347
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3347 (3347)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Moretonhampstead
- National Grid reference
- SX73858900
- Latitude
- 50.68694
- Longitude
- -3.78721
- Altitude
- 335 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 3, SW 3, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); In-turned (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885); Excavation (1900); Other (1972); Other (2013); Earthwork Survey (1972-1979); Earthwork Survey (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003860
- HER
- Devon MDV8221
- National record
- record SX 78 NW 6; monument 445462
- Wikidata
- Q31114889
Sources
References
- Baring Gould, S. 1901. Report Devonshire Association reports and transactions 33/1901/129-135.
- Collis, J. 1972. Cranbrook Castle, Moretonhampstead. A new survey, Proc. Devon Archaeol. Soc, 30, 216-21.
- Collis, J. 1979. Cranbrook Castle revisted, Proc. Devon Archaeol. Soc, 37, 191-94.
- 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.
- Silvester, R. and Quinell, N. 1993. Unfinished hillforts on the Devon moors, Proc. Devon Archaeol. Soc, 51, 17-31.