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Mockham Down Camp
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3488
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3488 (3488)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Brayford
- National Grid reference
- SS66673580
- Latitude
- 51.10608
- Longitude
- -3.90593
- Altitude
- 308 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, berm, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches and gang working
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (2007); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002534
- HER
- Devon MDV1985
- National record
- record SS 63 NE 15; monument 34539
- Wikidata
- Q31115205
Sources
References
- Morris, B. 2014. Mockham Down Farm, Devon: results of an archaeological impact assessment, South West Archaeology evaluation and assessment report.
- 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, 603-04.
- Walls, S. 2014. Monitoring of lodges and associated works at Mockham Down, Devon, South West Archaeology evaluation and assessment report.