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Beara Castle
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3504
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3504 (3504)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stoke Rivers
- National Grid reference
- SS64953565
- Latitude
- 51.10439
- Longitude
- -3.93040
- Altitude
- 265 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
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.88 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (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); Excavation (1962)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002533
- HER
- Devon MDV1970
- National record
- record SS 63 NW 4; monument 34566
- Wikidata
- Q31115260
Sources
References
- Grinsell, L.V. 1970. The archaeology of Exmoor : Bideford Bay to Bridgwater, 82.
- 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, 611.