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<< Our Photo Pages >> Castle Dyke (Devon) - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Devon

Submitted by coldrum on Tuesday, 31 August 2010  Page Views: 8155

Multi-periodSite Name: Castle Dyke (Devon)
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 6.018 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Devon Type: Ancient Village or Settlement

Map Ref: SX92147700
Latitude: 50.582743N  Longitude: 3.524859W
Condition:
5Perfect
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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Mabel_Smith visited on 3rd Dec 2018 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 2 The way to go from Bishopsteignton is via the steep public footpath on the corner of Berry Hill and Teignview Road. Follow this path all the way to the road at the top of the hill and go right towards the golf course until you reach the Gypsy Corner sign post, go left on the Exeter road and all the way up passed the golf course until you meet the busy B3192. Carefully continue your route over this crossroads until you come to a small fork, go left to meet Luscombe Hill road and then right along this road a short way until you see a wooden gate through the trees on the left marked 'Eordbirig'. The impressive site stretches out in a dramatic oval enclosure before you, largely clear but for a few tall trees that have seeded themselves in the muddy but flat ground. The Historic England website has this to say on the site, "This monument includes a slight univallate hillfort known as Castle Dyke, situated on the summit of Little Haldon Hill overlooking the valley of Smallacombe Goyle. The hillfort includes an oval enclosure which measures up to 90m long by 76m wide internally, defined by a single rampart bank measuring up to 1.5m high and a partially buried outer ditch which is up to 0.5m deep. To the east is a simple entrance with a causeway over the ditch. The ditch has been cut to the south by a road. The hillfort is referred to as ‘Eordbirig’ in a charter of 1044. Two barrows a short distance east of the hillfort are not included within this scheduling because they have not been formally assessed." Philip Gourd alleges this about events that took place on Haldon in 927AD in his book 'About Bishopsteigton' printed by Gerald Retallick in 1993, "The situation developed into a pitched battle at the earthworks known as Castle Dyke, within the parish of Bishopsteignton and Haldon. [...] After a sharp conflict here, Athelston completely defeated the Celtic King Howel, and continued the offensive until the Celts retreated to the West of the Tamar. To this day we have Cornwall as a Celtic county and Devon as a Saxon country. What history has been made here at Bishopsteignton!" But unfortunately this publication includes no sources of the information included within so we cannot take this claim that the battle occurred on this site as fact.

Castle Dyke (Devon)
Castle Dyke (Devon) submitted by Mabel_Smith : There are a few paths through the enclosure, very boggy today! Looking East into the woods you can just see the earthwork bank in this photo. As it appeared on the morning of 3/12/18. Unedited. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village or Settlement in Devon

From Pastscape:

"It is a sub-oval univallate earthwork encompassing 0.73ha. with a bank and outer ditch and traces of a counterscarp bank.
There are two entrances to the unraised interior.

The southern entrance interposes a ditch which is at differing depths on either side. Also here the inner scarp of the bank is of differing lengths. This suggests the gap results from `gang working' and is original.

The north-eastern entrance is flanked by the only traces of the counter scarp bank which suggests it is also original. Recent use of this gap has exposed the stone base of the bank which indicates the entrance was under 3m wide, as is the southern entrance. The earthwork accords with a pre-Norman date. Its situation would suggest a small defensive settlement site probably of I.A. date."

For more information see Pastscape Monument No. 447664.
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Castle Dyke (Devon)
Castle Dyke (Devon) submitted by Mabel_Smith : 'Eordbirig' The gateway into the site from the road. As it appeared on the morning of 3/12/18. Unedited. (7 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Castle Dyke (Devon)
Castle Dyke (Devon) submitted by hoya105 : Showing the bank as it is now - lovely peaceful setting despite being near a road. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
SX9277 : Within Castle Dyke, Little Haldon by Robin Stott
by Robin Stott
©2009(licence)
SX9277 : Forestry track near Castle Dyke, Little Haldon by Robin Stott
by Robin Stott
©2009(licence)
SX9277 : Bank and ditch, Castle Dyke, Little Haldon by Robin Stott
by Robin Stott
©2009(licence)
SX9277 : Trees on the bank, Castle Dyke, Little Haldon by Robin Stott
by Robin Stott
©2009(licence)
SX9277 : Castle Dyke: hill fort earthworks on Haldon Ridge by David Gearing
by David Gearing
©2010(licence)

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