Location
- Atlas number
- EN3459 (3459)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lynton and Lynmouth
- National Grid reference
- SS740493
- Latitude
- 51.22978
- Longitude
- -3.80568
- Altitude
- 236 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 35 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Outworks (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory and ridge
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1839); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1989); Other (2004); Earthwork Survey (1993-1996); Other (2007-2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1020807
- HER
- Exmoor National Park MDE1236 (second identifier MDV684)
- National record
- record SS 74 NW 3; monument 35152
- Wikidata
- Q31115051
Sources
References
- Allcroft, A.H. 1908. Earthworks of England, London: Macmillan.
- Grant, N. 1995. The Occupation of Hillforts in Devon during The Post-Roman, 106.
- Riley, H. and Wilson-North, R. 2001. The Field Archaeology of Exmoor, 58-59.
- 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.
- Woollcombe Mss Devon and Exeter Inst Library 1839.