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Slapton Castle
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3512
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3512 (3512)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stokenham
- National Grid reference
- SX80824435
- Latitude
- 50.28692
- Longitude
- -3.67443
- Altitude
- 64 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Footprint
- 4.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Entrance forms
- Hornwork (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1830-1847); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886-1887)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1019236
- HER
- Devon MDV8371
- National record
- record SX 84 SW 1; monument 44350
- Wikidata
- Q31115310
Sources
References
- Elliott, E. A. S. 1901. On Some Earthworks In The South Hams, Trans. Devonshire Assoc, 33, 475-483.
- 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, 589.
- Woollcombe MSS, c.1830-47 Devon and Exeter Institution Library.