Home / England / Devon / Woodbury Camp
Woodbury Camp
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3437
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3437 (3437)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stoke Fleming
- National Grid reference
- SX84255105
- Latitude
- 50.34787
- Longitude
- -3.62821
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hornwork (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and inland promontory
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture and arable
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1841); Other (1888); Other (1995); Other (1904)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1019783
- HER
- Devon MDV8504
- National record
- record SX 85 SW 8; monument 446086
- Wikidata
- Q31115006
Sources
References
- 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.