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Hillsborough, Ilfracombe
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3458
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3458 (3458)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ilfracombe
- National Grid reference
- SS532477
- Latitude
- 51.21011
- Longitude
- -4.10301
- 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 0, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- built-up land and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1809); Other (1890); Other (2010-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002512
- HER
- Devon MDV2210
- National record
- record SS 54 NW 3; monument 34114
- Wikidata
- Q31115042
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, 577.
- Whybrow, C. 1967. Hillsborough Promontory Fort, Ilfracombe, Proc. Devon Archaeol. Expl. Soc, 25, 14-16.