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Brightley Barton Camp
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3489
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3489 (3489)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Chittlehampton
- National Grid reference
- SS61252290
- Latitude
- 50.98876
- Longitude
- -3.97830
- Altitude
- 61 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016205
- HER
- Devon MDV972
- National record
- record SS 62 SW 3; monument 34457
- Wikidata
- Q31115208
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, 604.