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Windbury Head
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN3531
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3531 (3531)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hartland
- National Grid reference
- SS28622659
- Latitude
- 51.01289
- Longitude
- -4.44423
- Altitude
- 140 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Outworks (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Earthwork Survey (1999); LiDAR Survey (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003864
- HER
- Devon MDV71
- National record
- record SS 22 NE 1; monument 107922
- Wikidata
- Q31115385
Sources
References
- Tithe Map and Award Hartland 1842.
- 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, 577.
- Wilson-North, R. 1999. A Prehistoric Enclosure at Windbury Head, Hartland, Devonshire, RCHME Survey Report.