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Cadbury Castle, Cadbury
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3354
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3354 (3354)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cadbury
- National Grid reference
- SS913052
- Latitude
- 50.83679
- Longitude
- -3.54450
- Altitude
- 253 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 3, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East); In-turned (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- Other (1848); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Geophysical Survey (2013); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1019540
- HER
- Devon MDV1213
- National record
- record SS 90 NW 1; monument 36328
- Wikidata
- Q31114931
Sources
References
- Fox, A. 1952. Roman objects from Cadbury Castle, Rep. Trans. Devon Assoc., 84, 105-14.
- Fox, A. 1996. Prehistoric hillforts in Devon, Tiverton: Devon Books.
- 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.
- Wilkes, E.M. 2010. Report on geophysical survey at Cadbury Camp, Devon, Unpublished client report (Natural England and Fursdon Estate), available at Devon HER.
- Wilkes, E.M. and Griffith, F.M. 2013. Cadbury Castle, Devon, reconsidered, Archaeol J., 169, 237-80.