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Woodhouse, Queen's Nympton
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN4258
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4258 (4258)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Queen's Nympton
- National Grid reference
- SS71262241
- Latitude
- 50.98660
- Longitude
- -3.83561
- Altitude
- 158 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope 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
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1971); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015463
- HER
- Devon MDV749
- National record
- record SS 72 SW 1; monument 34975
- Wikidata
- Q31115463
Sources
References
- Wall, J.C. 1906. Ancient Earthworks, In ed W. Page, The Victoria County History of the County of Devon, Vol I, 610, London: James Street, Haymarket.