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Loddiswell Rings
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3433
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3433 (3433)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Loddiswell
- National Grid reference
- SX72035203
- Latitude
- 50.35430
- Longitude
- -3.80030
- Altitude
- 186 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
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Earthwork Survey (1990)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016258
- HER
- Devon MDV7601
- National record
- record SX 75 SW 4; monument 444690
- Wikidata
- Q17663042
Sources
References
- Fox, A. 1952. Hill-slope forts and related earthworks in South-West England and South Wales, Archaeol. J. 109, 1-22.
- 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.
- Wilson-North, R. and Dunn, C. 1990. 'The Rings'. Loddiswell: a new survey buy the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, Proc. Devon, Archaeol. Soc, 5, (2 and 3), 43-67.