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Place Wood
Devon, England ยท Atlas EN4264
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4264 (4264)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Devon
- Historic county
- Devon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ashburton
- National Grid reference
- SX761713
- Latitude
- 50.52914
- Longitude
- -3.74951
- Altitude
- 187 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant, Cropmark, and Likely destroyed
- 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
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1789); Other (1985); Other (1880-1899); Other (1951-1995); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1801-1900)
Identifiers
- HER
- Devon MDV8209
- National record
- record SX 77 SE
- Wikidata
- Q31115211
Sources
References
- Amery, J.S.1924. Presidential Address: Ashburton of Past Days. Trans Devonshire Assoc, 56, 44.
- Amery, P.F.S. 1900 - 1901. A Tour across Dartmoor into North Devon by the Rev. John Swete 1789, Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, 1, page unknown.
- Devon County Council, 1838-1848, Tithe Mosaic, approximately 1838-1848 (Cartographic).
- Pilkington-Rogers, C.W. 1932. The Date of the Dartmoor Antiquities, Trans Devonshire Assoc, 64. 385.
- Wall, J.C. 1906. Ancient Earthworks, In ed W. Page, The Victoria County History of the County of Devon, Vol I, 602, London: James Street, Haymarket.