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Membury Castle
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3421
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3421 (3421)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Membury
- National Grid reference
- ST2827 0284
- Latitude
- 50.82076
- Longitude
- -3.01968
- Altitude
- 204 m
Form and condition
- Type
- 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
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (South west); Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1833); Other (1993-1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017951
- HER
- Devon MDV1930
- National record
- record ST 20 SE 11; monument 190202
- Wikidata
- Q31114981
Sources
References
- Allcroft, A.H. 1908. Earthworks of England, London: Macmillan, 201.
- Davidson, J. 1833. British and Roman remains near Axminster.
- Fox, A. 1996. Prehistoric hillforts in Devon, Tiverton: Devon Books.
- Wall, J.C. 1906. Ancient Earthworks, In W. Page (ed), The Victoria County History of the County of Devon, Vol I, London: James Street, Haymarket, 583.