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Roborough Castle
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3502
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3502 (3502)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- West Pilton
- National Grid reference
- SS56933520
- Latitude
- 51.09793
- Longitude
- -4.04478
- Altitude
- 139 m
Form and condition
- Type
- 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
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); 1st Identified Written Reference (901-1000); Other (1830-1847)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002514
- HER
- Devon MDV921
- National record
- record SS 53 NE 1; monument 33788
- Wikidata
- Q31115248
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, 608-09.
- Woollcombe MSS, c.1830-47 Devon and Exeter Institution Library.