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Myrtleberry North Camp
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3501
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3501 (3501)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lynton and Lynmouth
- National Grid reference
- SS74284877
- Latitude
- 51.22419
- Longitude
- -3.80188
- Altitude
- 185 m
Form and condition
- Type
- multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1.45 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.28 ha, 1.45 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Hollow Way (South west); Other Forms (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1989); Other (2002); Earthwork Survey (1993-1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1020805
- HER
- Exmoor National Park MDE1247 (second identifier MDV687)
- National record
- record SS 74 NW 14; monument 35179
- Wikidata
- Q31115238
Sources
References
- Grinsell, L.V. 1970. The archaeology of Exmoor : Bideford Bay to Bridgwater, 83.