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Clovelly Dykes
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3409
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3409 (3409)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Clovelly
- National Grid reference
- SS311234
- Latitude
- 50.98545
- Longitude
- -4.40702
- Altitude
- 210 m
Form and condition
- Type
- multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 5, NW 5
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 9.1 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1.1 ha, 2.7 ha, 9.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South east); Over-lapping (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1018522
- HER
- Devon MDV169
- National record
- record SS 32 SW 1; monument 32663
- Wikidata
- Q31114972
Sources
References
- Fox, A. 1996. Prehistoric hillforts in Devon, Tiverton: Devon Books.
- 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.