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Berry's Wood
Devon, England · Atlas EN3356
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3356 (3356)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Highweek
- National Grid reference
- SX846710
- Latitude
- 50.52778
- Longitude
- -3.62857
- Altitude
- 68 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 4.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hollow Way (East); Hollow Way (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms, other roundhouse evidence, and quarry hollows
- Interior excavation
- postholes and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1962)
Identifiers
- HER
- Devon MDV9145
- National record
- record SX 87 SW 9; monument 636732
- Wikidata
- Q31114824
Sources
References
- Gallant, L. and Silvester, R.J. 1985. An excavation on the Iron Age hillfort at Berry Down, Newton Abbot, Proc. Devon Archaeol. Soc, 43, 39-49.