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Cotley Castle
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3515
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3515 (3515)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunsford
- National Grid reference
- SX86038954
- Latitude
- 50.69424
- Longitude
- -3.61525
- Altitude
- 215 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
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 2.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North west); In-turned (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1948); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888-1889)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003181
- HER
- Devon MDV9388
- National record
- record SX 88 NE 2; monument 447071
- Wikidata
- Q31115336
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, 604-05.