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Hunter's Tor Camp
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3357
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3357 (3357)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lustleigh
- National Grid reference
- SX761824
- Latitude
- 50.62829
- Longitude
- -3.75246
- Altitude
- 320 m
Form and condition
- Type
- multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, rubble, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Passage-way/Corridor (South east); In-turned (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Earthwork Survey (1999-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003827
- HER
- Devon MDV8824
- National record
- record SX 78 SE 2; monument 445589
- Wikidata
- Q31114942
Sources
References
- Silvester, R.J. and Quinnell, N.V. 1993. Unfinished hillforts on the Devon moors, Proc. Devon Archaeol. Soc, 51, 17-31.