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Dumpdon Camp
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3351
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3351 (3351)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Luppitt
- National Grid reference
- ST17620401
- Latitude
- 50.82973
- Longitude
- -3.17135
- Altitude
- 261 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1972); Excavation (1990); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1018851
- HER
- Devon MDV1877
- National record
- record ST 10 SE 16; monument 188754
- Wikidata
- Q31114900
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.
- Todd, M. 1992. The hillfort of Dumpdon, Proc Devon Archaeol Soc, 50,47-52.