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Holbury Camp
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3430
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3430 (3430)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Holbeton
- National Grid reference
- SX62385049
- Latitude
- 50.33832
- Longitude
- -3.93528
- Altitude
- 96 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
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 3.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (North east); Hornwork (North west); Blocked (West); Hornwork (West); Hollow Way (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1861); Other (2000); Geophysical Survey (2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1019782
- HER
- Devon MDV3155
- National record
- record SX 65 SW 3; monument 441335
- Wikidata
- Q31115003
Sources
References
- Davidson, J. 1861. Antiquities of Devon before the Norman Conquest, 50.
- Fox, A. 1955. Archaeology and early history, 22nd report, Rep. Trans. Devonshire Assoc, 87, 319-26.
- 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.
- Wilkes, E.M. 2007. Report on geophysical survey and targeted excavation at Holbury Camp, south Devon, Unpublished client report (SHDC), available at Devon HER.