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Posbury Camp
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3476
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3476 (3476)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Crediton Hamlets
- National Grid reference
- SX80869717
- Latitude
- 50.76173
- Longitude
- -3.69046
- Altitude
- 170 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant, Cropmark, and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 3, SW 3, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); 1st Identified Written Reference (1830-1847); Earthwork Survey (1983-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003826
- HER
- Devon MDV9425
- National record
- record SX 89 NW 1; monument 447429
- Wikidata
- Q31115181
Sources
References
- 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.
- Woollcombe MSS, c.1830-47 Devon and Exeter Institution Library.