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Musbury Castle
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3468
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3468 (3468)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Musbury
- National Grid reference
- SY 2820 9411
- Latitude
- 50.74214
- Longitude
- -3.01879
- Altitude
- 170 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour 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 1
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 3.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Oblique (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1765); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016793
- HER
- Devon MDV11390
- National record
- record SY 29 SE 8; monument 449626
- Wikidata
- Q31115098
Sources
References
- Fox, A. 1996. Prehistoric hillforts in Devon, Tiverton: Devon Books, 44.
- 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, 584-85.