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Boringdon Camp
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3429
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3429 (3429)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Sparkwell
- National Grid reference
- SX54415961
- Latitude
- 50.41845
- Longitude
- -4.05096
- Altitude
- 139 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east); Passage-way/Corridor (South east); Blocked (South east); Barbican (South east); Hollow Way (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Geophysical Survey (1979); Excavation (1995); Other (2000); Geophysical Survey (2006); Earthwork Survey (1991-2000); Other (1985)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1019946
- HER
- Devon MDV1751
- National record
- record SX 55 NW 2; monument 438415
- Wikidata
- Q31114998
Sources
References
- Bartlett, A. 1979. Magnetometer survey of Boringdon Camp, AML Rep. No 2964, Ancient Monuments Laboratory, English Heritage.
- Gent. T.H. 1995. Evaluation excavations in advance of hedgebank removal at Boringdon Camp, Sparkwell. Exeter Archaeology Assessment and Evaluation report.
- 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.
- Slater, W. and Pearson, T. 1985. A survey of Boringdon Camp, Proc. Devon Archaeol. Soc, 43, 112-15.
- Wilkes, E.M. 2007. Report on geophysical survey at Boringdon Camp, south Devon, Unpublished client report (SHDC), available at Devon HER.