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Holne Chase Castle
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3355
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3355 (3355)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Holne
- National Grid reference
- SX72447190
- Latitude
- 50.53292
- Longitude
- -3.80129
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches and gang working
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east); Passage-way/Corridor (South east); In-turned (South west); Passage-way/Corridor (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1765); 1st Identified Written Reference (1873); Other (1886); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003842
- HER
- Devon MDV7996
- National record
- record SX 77 SW 14; monument 71900
- Wikidata
- Q31114934
Sources
References
- Allcroft, A.H. 1908. Earthworks of England, London: Macmillan.
- Amery, P.F.S. 1873-74. Trans. Devon Ass. vol. 6, 1873-4, pp.261-65.
- Amery, P.F.S. 1905. Fragment of pottery found at Holne Chase Castle, Rep. Trans. Devonshire Ass., 37, 81.
- Amery, P.F.S. 1906. Supposed currency bars found near Holne cHase camp, Rep. Trans. Devonshire Ass., 38, 370-76.
- Donn, B. 1765. A map of the County of Devon.
- Riley, H. 1995. Holne Chase Castle, Holne, Devon: a new survey by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, Proc. Devon. Archaeol. Soc, 53, 91-95.
- Hazel Riley 31-MAR-1996 RCHME: Holne Chase Survey