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Woodbury Castle
Devon, England · Atlas EN3353
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3353 (3353)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Woodbury
- National Grid reference
- SY032873
- Latitude
- 50.67776
- Longitude
- -3.37019
- Altitude
- 175 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 6
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, timber-framed wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (West); Outworks (North); Out-turned (South); Outworks (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes
- Finds
- pottery, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1765); Other (1839); 1st Identified Written Reference (1842); Excavation (1971); Other (1972); Other (1975); Earthwork Survey (1999); Geophysical Survey (2009); Other (2013); LiDAR Survey (2015); 1st Identified Map Depiction
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003862
- HER
- Devon MDV10500
- National record
- record SY 08 NW 7; monument 448559
- Wikidata
- Q31114924
Sources
References
- Fletcher, M 1998. Woodbury Castle: An earthwork survey by RCHME, Proc Devon Archaeol Soc, 56, 165-171.
- 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.
- Miles, H. 1975. Excavations at Woodbury Castle, East Devon, Proc Devon Archaeol Soc, 33, 183-207.
- Shortt W.T.P 1842. Collectanea Curiosa Antiqua Dumnonia, Exeter: Featherstone.