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Embury Beacon
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3464
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3464 (3464)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hartland
- National Grid reference
- SS21671948
- Latitude
- 50.94742
- Longitude
- -4.54051
- Altitude
- 157 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.78 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Barbican (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- coastal grassland
- Water source
- pool
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1997); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1886); Excavation (1972-1973)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003845
- HER
- Devon MDV48
- National record
- record SS 21 671948; monument 32107
- Wikidata
- Q31115080
Sources
References
- M.J.Fletcher and S. Probert 1997. Embury Beacon, Hartland, Devonshire 1997. An Archaeological Survey by the Royal Commission On The Historical Monuments of England. Unpublished RCHME report.
- Jeffries, J.S. 1974, An excavation on the coastal promontory fort of Embury Beacon, Devon, Proc. Prehist. Soc, 40, 136-56.
- Wall, J.C. 1906. Ancient Earthworks, In ed W. Page, The Victoria County History of the County of Devon, Vol I, London: James Street, Haymarket, 576-77.