Location
- Atlas number
- EN3403 (3403)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stockleigh Pomeroy
- National Grid reference
- SS 8855 0315
- Latitude
- 50.81695
- Longitude
- -3.58346
- Altitude
- 213 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual, C14, and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, and environmental material
- Investigations
- Other (1993); Excavation (1994); Geophysical Survey (1994); Earthwork Survey (1994); Other (1997); Other (1992-1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016259
- HER
- Devon MDV29729
- National record
- record SS 80 SE 53; monument 1038533
- Wikidata
- Q31114963
Sources
References
- Gent, T. and Quinnell, H. 1999. Excavation of a causewayed enclosure and hillfort on Raddon Hill, Stockleigh Pomeroy, Proc. Devon Archaeol. Soc, 57, 1-75.
- 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.
- Knight, M and Gent, T. 1994. Excavation and Survey of a multi-period enclosure at Raddon Hill, Exeter: Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit Report.
- Johnson, A.E. 1995. Raddon Hill, Stockleigh Pomeroy, Devon. Geophysical and topographic surveys: Interim report, No. 0420594/RAD/EXM, Oxford Archaeotechnics.