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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Oldaport Promontory FortCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.864 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Devon Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Map Ref: SX68554940
Latitude: 50.329826N Longitude: 3.848197W
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| 5 | Perfect |
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| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
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| 3 | Ordinary |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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Promontory Fort in Devon
The earliest reference to Oldaport is dated c.1250, when John de la Port is said to have taken 'his name of an old fort that standeth upon the river of Erme and gave the name unto a family'. John's son William gave the property to his son in law Thomas de Heanton, whose son William was granted a licence for a chapel of ease at Oldaport in 1332. His daughter Joan brought the property as a dowry when she married Richard Somaster in the 1330s, and the property continued in the family until sold in the early to mid 17th century to Sir Warwick Hele, who seems to have let it. At some time before 1801, it was acquired by Lord Ashburton, who then leased it to Luke Pearse. It was sold to the sitting tenant John Wilson in 1860 and has had various farming owners since then.
Archaeological evidence shows that the long spur, on the side of which the farm is located, was occupied by a promontory fort in the Iron Age, c.600-100BC, while cropmarks on the ridge top, west of the farm may relate to a later Iron Age or Romano-British farmstead. In the late Saxon period, the site was chosen as a defensive burh or fort, possibly being an early 11th century addition to a sequence of burhs placed at strategic locations across England in the 9th century by King Alfred the Great. This was confirmed in 2004 by a radiocarbon date in the early 11th century for the construction of its walls.
Source: devonruralarchive.com
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