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Hembury Castle
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3349
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3349 (3349)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- West Buckfastleigh
- National Grid reference
- SX72636845
- Latitude
- 50.50169
- Longitude
- -3.79773
- Altitude
- 180 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, palisade, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Finds
- metal and human bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Other (2013); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Earthwork Survey (1983-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003859
- HER
- Devon MDV7776
- National record
- record SX 76 NW 7; monument 444797
- Wikidata
- Q31114893
Sources
References
- Fox, A. 1996. Prehistoric hillforts in Devon, Tiverton: Devon Books.