Location
- Atlas number
- EN4256 (4256)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Modbury
- National Grid reference
- SX63344934
- Latitude
- 50.32803
- Longitude
- -3.92139
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial 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 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 13 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887); Excavation (1938); Other (1968); Geophysical Survey (1990); Other (2004); Other (2015)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1020234
- HER
- Devon MDV4861
- National record
- record SX 64 NW 4; monument 441015
- Wikidata
- Q31115443
Sources
References
- Anon 1846. Gentleman's Magazine, 26, 517.
- Farley, M.E. and Whittle, R.I. 1968. Oldaport, Modbury, Proc Devon Archaeol Soc, 26, 31-6.
- Jope, E.M. and Threlfall, R.I. 1942. The fort at Oldaport, Ant J, 22, 65-8.
- Rainbird, P. 2015. Oldaport Camp, Modbury, Devon, (NGR SX 63515 49445), Report on Conservation Works and Additional Archaeological Survey, AC Archaeology Report No ACD1130/1/0.
- Rainbird, P. and Druce, D. 2004. A Late Saxon Date from Oldaport, 177-180.
- Welsby, D.A. 1982. Roman Military Defences, BAR 101, 155.