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Berry Ball, Crediton Hamlets
Devon, England · Atlas EN3422
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3422 (3422)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Crediton Hamlets
- National Grid reference
- SX76199748
- Latitude
- 50.76362
- Longitude
- -3.75696
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
- Water source
- flush
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1861); Excavation (1998); Geophysical Survey (2007); Other (1993-1996)
Identifiers
- HER
- Devon MDV13753
- National record
- record SX 79 NE 5; monument 445714
- Wikidata
- Q31114840
Sources
References
- Davidson, J. 1861. Notes on Antiquities of Devon, 26.
- 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.
- Manning, P. and Quinnell, H. 2009. Excavation and field survey at the Iron Age hillfort of Berry Ball, Crediton Hamlets, Proc. Devon Archaeol. Soc, 67, 99-132.
- Stephens C. 2007. Geophysical Survey Report. Berry Ball Hillfort, near Crediton, GSB Prospection Ltd Survey report.