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Hembury, Payhembury
Devon, England · Atlas EN3352
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3352 (3352)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Payhembury
- National Grid reference
- ST112031
- Latitude
- 50.82055
- Longitude
- -3.26132
- Altitude
- 270 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, timber-framed wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); Oblique (North east); Hollow Way (West); Oblique (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC, 800–400 BC, and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1972); Other (2013); Excavation (1930-1935); Excavation (1980-1983)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1018850
- HER
- Devon MDV1853
- National record
- record ST 10 SW 4; monument 188808
- Wikidata
- Q31114913
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.
- Liddell, D.M. Report on the excavations at Hembury Fort, Proc Devon Archaeol Ex Soc, I (1930), 1-24; I (1931), 90-120, 162-90; II (1935), 135-75.
- Todd, M. 1985. Excavations at Hembury (Devon) 1980-1983, Antiq J, 64, 251-68.
- Todd, M. 1989. Hembury, Field Guide Number Five, Devon Archaeological Society.
- Todd, M. 1987. The South West to AD 1000, London.
- Todd, M. 2002. The cross-dykes at Hembury, Proc Devon Archaeol Soc, 60, 207-210.
- Todd, M. 2007. Roman military occupation at Hembury (Devon), Britannia, 38, 107-123.