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Belbury Castle
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3471
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3471 (3471)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ottery St Mary
- National Grid reference
- SY07579404
- Latitude
- 50.73850
- Longitude
- -3.31124
- Altitude
- 108 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1061); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017774
- HER
- Devon MDV10433
- National record
- record SY 09 SE 10; monument 448859
- Wikidata
- Q31115148
Sources
References
- Kirwan, R. 1871. Prehistoric archaeology of East Devon, Trans. Devonshire Assoc, 4 (ii), 648.
- 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, 585.