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Castle Dyke, Chudleigh
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3514
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3514 (3514)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Chudleigh
- National Grid reference
- SX87507875
- Latitude
- 50.59771
- Longitude
- -3.59130
- Altitude
- 123 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 6
- Enclosed area
- 5.7 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 3.6 ha, 5.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); In-turned (South west); In-turned (East); Passage-way/Corridor (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Excavation (1960-1969)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003846
- HER
- Devon MDV9008
- National record
- record SX 87 NE 10; monument 446639
- Wikidata
- Q31115322
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, 592-93.