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Stanborough Camp
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3511
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3511 (3511)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Halwell
- National Grid reference
- SX77255165
- Latitude
- 50.35197
- Longitude
- -3.72666
- Altitude
- 206 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Other (2010); 1st Identified Written Reference (918)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1019314
- HER
- Devon MDV7622
- National record
- record SX 75 SE 5; monument 444660
- Wikidata
- Q31115297
Sources
References
- Morris, B. and Walls, S. 2010. Stanborough Farm, Halwell, Devon: results of a desk-based assessment and archaeological monitoring and recording, Report No 101202,South West Archaeology evaluation and assessment report.
- Slater, T. 1991. Controlling the South Hams: The Anglo Saxon Burh at Halwell, Trans. Devonshire Assoc, 123, 57-58.
- 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, 605-07.