Location
- Atlas number
- EN3478 (3478)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Luccombe
- National Grid reference
- SS 8585 4490
- Latitude
- 51.19183
- Longitude
- -3.63495
- Altitude
- 411 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and hillslope
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Earthwork Survey (1997); Earthwork Survey (2015); Other (1965-1987)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006204
- HER
- Exmoor National Park MSO7896
- National record
- record SS 84 SE 3; monument 35939
- Wikidata
- Q31115183
Sources
References
- Allcroft, A.H. 1908. Earthwork of England : prehistoric, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and mediaeval, London: Macmillan, 207.
- Burrow, E.J. 1924. The ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 62-3.
- Burrow, I. 1981. Hillfort and hill-top settlement in Somerset in the first to eighth centuries AD, British Archaeological Report (BAR) British Series 1, 91.
- Dobson, D.P. 1931, The Archaeology of Somerset, 206.
- Grinsell, L.V. 1970. The archaeology of Exmoor : Bideford Bay to Bridgwater, Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 79,85,201.
- Page, J.L.W. 1890. An Exploration of Exmoor and the Hill Country of West Somerset: With Notes on Its Archaeology, 85-6.
- Page, W. ed. 1911. Ancient earthworks, The Victoria History of Somerset, Volume Two, The Victoria History of the Counties of England, London: Constable and Co, 479.
- Savage, J. 1830. History of the Hundred of Carhampton, 91-2.
- Whybrow, C. 1967. Some multivallate hillforts on Exmoor and in North Devon, Proc Devon Archaeol Soc, 9-11.
- Wilson-North, R. 1997. Berry Castle, Porlock, Somerset, Unpublished RCHME report.
- <31> Gent, T. and Manning, P., 2015, Exmoor National Park Scheduled Monument Condition Survey 2015 - Draft (Report). SEM8278.