Location
- Atlas number
- EN4237 (4237)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Brentor
- National Grid reference
- SX471804
- Latitude
- 50.60326
- Longitude
- -4.16204
- Altitude
- 305 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1104797
- HER
- Devon MDV1669
- National record
- record SX 48 SE 5; monument 438139
- Wikidata
- Q31115407
Sources
References
- Griffith, F. M. 1988. Devon's Past. An Aerial View. Devon's Past. An Aerial View, Paperback Volume, 66.
- Newman, P. 2003. Brentor. An Earthwork Site on Western Dartmoor, Devon, English Heritage Archaeological Investigation Report, AI/12/2004.
- Pilkington-Rogers, C. W. 1932. The Date of the Dartmoor Antiquities, Trans Devonshire Assoc, 64, 385.
- Silvester, R. J. 1979. The Relationship of First Millennium Settlement to the Upland Areas of the South West, Proc Devon Archaeol Soc, 37, 181.
- Worth, R. N.. 1889. Early History of Tavistock, Trans Devonshire Assoc. 21, 135.