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Sidbury Castle
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3423
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3423 (3423)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Sidmouth
- National Grid reference
- SY12849134
- Latitude
- 50.71497
- Longitude
- -3.23560
- Altitude
- 186 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North west); Outworks (North west)
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
- Excavation (1852); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1972); Other (1992-1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1018849
- HER
- Devon MDV10733
- National record
- record SY 19 SW 17; monument 449434
- Wikidata
- Q31114990
Sources
References
- Bradley, R. 1971. Stock raising and the origins of the hillfort on the South Downs, Antiq J. 51, 20-21.
- Fox, A. 1996. Prehistoric hillforts in Devon, Tiverton: Devon Books.
- Hutchinson, P. O. 1868. Hill Fortresses, slingstones and other antiquities in SE Devon, Trans. Devonshire Assoc, 2, 376.
- 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.
- Orlando, P. Hutchinson's Travels in Victorian Devon: Illustrated Journals and Sketchbooks, ed J. Butler.
- 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, 587.