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Seaton Down
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3456
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3456 (3456)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Axmouth
- National Grid reference
- SY233918
- Latitude
- 50.72110
- Longitude
- -3.08655
- Altitude
- 122 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1996); Other (2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017776
- HER
- Devon MDV14054
- National record
- record SY 29 SW 4; monument 449654
- Wikidata
- Q31115019
Sources
References
- 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, 625.