Location
- Atlas number
- EN3350 (3350)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Southleigh
- National Grid reference
- SY18749238
- Latitude
- 50.72531
- Longitude
- -3.15259
- Altitude
- 185 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 1.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Barbican (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1842); Excavation (1869); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1972); Other (2013); Excavation (1952-1954)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1013425
- HER
- Devon MDV10840
- National record
- record SY 19 SE 14; monument 449304
- Wikidata
- Q31114895
Sources
References
- Allcroft, A.H. 1908. Earthworks of England, London: Macmillan.
- 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.
- Shortt, W.T.P 1842. Collectanea Curiosa Antiqua Dumnonia, Exeter: Featherstone.
- Young, A., and Richardson, K.M. 1954-55. Report on the Excavations at Blackbury Castle, Proc Devon Archaeol Ex Soc, 5, (1958), 43-67.