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Greenway Camp, Kingswear
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3461
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3461 (3461)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kingswear
- National Grid reference
- SX88855363
- Latitude
- 50.37195
- Longitude
- -3.56410
- Altitude
- 135 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Postern Gate (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and hillslope
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1839); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1895); Other (1991); Other (2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1020158
- HER
- Devon MDV8541
- National record
- record SX 85 SE 8; monument 446012
- Wikidata
- Q31115061
Sources
References
- Fox, A. 1952. Hill-slope forts and related earthworks in South-West England and South Wales, Archaeol J, 109, 1-22
- 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, 591.
- Woollcombe Mss, Devon and Exeter Inst. Library 1839