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Higher Bury Camp
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3516
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3516 (3516)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tedburn St Mary
- National Grid reference
- SX79789572
- Latitude
- 50.74855
- Longitude
- -3.70528
- Altitude
- 198 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour 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
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.84 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015143
- HER
- Devon MDV8432
- National record
- record SX 79 NE 2; monument 445705
- Wikidata
- Q31115348
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, 611.