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Wooston Castle
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3348
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3348 (3348)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Moretonhampstead
- National Grid reference
- SX764896
- Latitude
- 50.69337
- Longitude
- -3.75061
- Altitude
- 198 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hollow Way (North west); In-turned (North west); Oblique (North west); Hollow Way (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885); Earthwork Survey (1981); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003822
- HER
- Devon MDV8292
- National record
- record SX 78 NE 2; monument 445354
- Wikidata
- Q31114892
Sources
References
- 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.