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Hawksdown Camp
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3467
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3467 (3467)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Axmouth
- National Grid reference
- SY26299143
- Latitude
- 50.71769
- Longitude
- -3.04552
- Altitude
- 125 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1861); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017775
- HER
- Devon MDV11391
- National record
- record SY 29 SE 3; monument 449621
- Wikidata
- Q31115095
Sources
References
- Davidson, J. 1861. Antiquities of Devonshire, 15.
- Fox, A. 1996. Prehistoric Hillforts in Devon, Tiverton: Devon Books, 35
- Holbrook, N. 1989. Roman Lead Sling-shot from near Hawkesdown Hill Hillfort, Proc. Devon Archaeol Soc, 117-8.
- Hutchinson, P. 1868. Hillfortresses of Devon, Trans. Devonshire Assoc, 2, 378-9.
- 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, 580-81.