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Unnamed Hillfort E of Buck's Mills
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN4261
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4261 (4261)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Parkham
- National Grid reference
- SS358234
- Latitude
- 50.98732
- Longitude
- -4.33970
- Altitude
- 145 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Other (2011-2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002527
- HER
- Devon MDV181
- National record
- record SS 32 SE; monument 32644
- Wikidata
- Q31115471
Sources
References
- Wall, J.C. 1906. Ancient Earthworks, In ed W. Page, The Victoria County History of the County of Devon, Vol I, 579, London: James Street, Haymarket.