Location
- Atlas number
- EN3359 (3359)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Brayford
- National Grid reference
- SS70553909
- Latitude
- 51.13638
- Longitude
- -3.85182
- Altitude
- 459 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope 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
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); Blocked (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1989); Other (1996); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889-1890); Other (2007-2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003884
- HER
- Devon
- National record
- record SS 73 NW 6; monument 35025
- Wikidata
- Q31114952
Sources
References
- Chanter, J.F. 1906. Note, Devonshire Association Reports and Transactions, 38, 118.
- 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.
- Jamieson, E. 2005. Shoulsbury Castle, Exmoor, Devon, Swindon: English Heritage Arch. Investigation Report, Ser. AI/13/2005.
- Silvester, R.J. and Quinnell, N.V. 1993. Unfinished hillforts on the Devon moors, Proc. Devon Archaeol. Soc, 51, 17-31.