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Newberry Camp
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3486
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3486 (3486)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Berrynarbor
- National Grid reference
- SS57174708
- Latitude
- 51.20505
- Longitude
- -4.04620
- Altitude
- 91 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and hillslope
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1822); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889)
Identifiers
- HER
- Devon MDV12550
- National record
- record SS 54 NE 4; monument 34091
- Wikidata
- Q31115001
Sources
References
- Grinsell, L.V. 1970. The archaeology of Exmoor : Bideford Bay to Bridgwater,
- Lysons, D. and Lysons, S. 1822. Magna Brittanica, 6, Devonshire, London: Printed for T. Caddell and W. Davies.
- Wall, J.C. 1906. Ancient Earthworks, In ed W. Page, The Victoria County History of the County of Devon, Vol I, London: James Street, Haymarket, 603.