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Berry Cliff Camp
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3469
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3469 (3469)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Branscombe
- National Grid reference
- SY18828819
- Latitude
- 50.68748
- Longitude
- -3.14993
- Altitude
- 137 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North west); Passage-way/Corridor (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Excavation (1872); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); 1st Identified Written Reference (1747-1762); Earthwork Survey (1983-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017772
- HER
- Devon MDV10899
- National record
- record SY 18 NE 11; monument 448903
- Wikidata
- Q31115127
Sources
References
- Hutchinson P. O. 1909. A History of Sidmouth, 1, 58.
- Miles, Jeremiah, Dean of Exeter, 1747-62. Branscombe, Parochial Collections, 4.
- 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, 575.