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Bantham Camp
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3462
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3462 (3462)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Thurlstone
- National Grid reference
- SX66324390
- Latitude
- 50.27984
- Longitude
- -3.87771
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887); Excavation (1978); Other (1982); Excavation (1997); Other (1997); Other (1999)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1019322
- HER
- Devon MDV2807
- National record
- record SX 64 SE 21; monument 441090
- Wikidata
- Q31115070
Sources
References
- Allcroft, E.H. 1908. Earthwork of England : prehistoric, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and mediaeval, 186.
- Fox, A. 1955. A Dark Age trading site at Bantham, Antiq J, 35, 53-67.
- Griffith, F M, 1986. Salvage observations at the Dark Age site at Bantham Ham In 1982, Proc. Devon Archaeol. Soc, 44, 39-57.
- 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, 580.