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Berry Castle, Woolfardisworthy
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3484
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3484 (3484)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Woolfardisworthy
- National Grid reference
- SS80160926
- Latitude
- 50.87043
- Longitude
- -3.70439
- Altitude
- 183 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); Blocked (West); In-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1890)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1019541
- HER
- Devon MDV634
- National record
- record SS 80 NW 2; monument 35514
- Wikidata
- Q31115188
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, 613.