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Okehampton Park
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3466
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3466 (3466)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Okehampton Hamlets
- National Grid reference
- SX604941
- Latitude
- 50.73000
- Longitude
- -3.97894
- Altitude
- 309 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 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885); Excavation (1938); Other (2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003873
- HER
- Devon MDV6880
- National record
- record SX 69 SW 13; monument 444130
- Wikidata
- Q31115094
Sources
References
- Brailsford, J.W. 1938. Excavations at Oakhampton Park, Devon, Proc. Devon Archaeol. Soc, 3, 86-91.