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Bolt Tail Camp
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3439
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3439 (3439)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- South Huish
- National Grid reference
- SX66883965
- Latitude
- 50.24182
- Longitude
- -3.86784
- Altitude
- 62 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South west); Hollow Way (South west); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- coastal grassland
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887); Excavation (1995); Earthwork Survey (1983-2005); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1019323
- HER
- Devon MDV4842
- National record
- record SX 63 NE 1; monument 440918
- Wikidata
- Q31115008
Sources
References
- Blaylock S. J. 1995. Watching brief and excavation in advance of footpath repair. Bolt Tail Promonotry Fort, Marlborough, Devon. National Trust archaeological report.
- Dyer, J. 1973. Southern England : an archaeological guide. The prehistoric and Roman remains, 56.
- Griffith, F.M. and Wilkes, E.M. 2006. The land named from the sea? Coastal archaeology and place names of Bigbury Bay, Devon, Archaeol. J., 163, 67-91.
- 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.
- National Trust 1995. The National Trust annual archaeological review, 4/1995, 10
- Quinell, N. 1992. Bolt Tail. Exeter: Devon Archaeol Soc. Field Guide.
- 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, 578.