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Burleigh Dolts
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3431
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3431 (3431)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- South Huish
- National Grid reference
- SX70804060
- Latitude
- 50.25118
- Longitude
- -3.81378
- Altitude
- 91 m
Form and condition
- Type
- multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (South west); In-turned (East); Hollow Way (East); Hornwork (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- north and west
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1819); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1840); Other (1999); Other (1885-1886)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1019313
- HER
- Devon MDV7224
- National record
- record SX 74 SW 16; monument 444528
- Wikidata
- Q31115005
Sources
References
- Elliot, E.A.S. 1901. X, Trans. Devonshire Assoc, 33, 475-83.
- Fox, A. 1951. Twentieth report on ancient monuments, Trans. Devonshire Assoc., 83, 34-5.
- 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.
- Hawkins, A. 1819. Devon and Cornwall notes and queries Kingsbridge and Salcombe, 109.
- 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, 609-10.
- Wilkes, E.M. 2006. Report on geophysical survey and targeted excavation at Burleigh Dolts, south Devon, Unpublished client report (SHDC), available at Devon HER.