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Berry Castle, Huntshaw
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3482
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3482 (3482)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Huntshaw
- National Grid reference
- SS49502228
- Latitude
- 50.98011
- Longitude
- -4.14532
- Altitude
- 91 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North west); Other Forms (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and hillslope
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016225
- HER
- Devon MDV5627
- National record
- record SS 42 SE 7; monument 33126
- Wikidata
- Q31115186
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, 597.