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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Brent HillCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.468 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Devon Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Buckfastleigh Nearest Village: Harbourneford
Map Ref: SX7039061670 Landranger Map Number: 202
Latitude: 50.440525N Longitude: 3.826593W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Hillfort in Devon
This hill fort is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks webstie - see their entry for Brent Hill Fort.
The fort is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 444944 and scheduled as Historic England List ID 1002662 (Hillfort on Brent Hill). The latter tells us: "This monument includes a slight univallate hillfort with outworks, hut circle platforms and beacon situated at the summit of the prominent Brent Hill. The hillfort survives as an irregularly shaped enclosure surrounding the summit of a naturally steep and rocky hillside which is further enhanced by a partial rampart and ditch. There is an extension to the rampart circuit on the south western side where natural defences are weaker and to the south east a second outwork in the form of a short length of outer rampart and partially buried ditch connects with steeper natural slopes to the north west and south east."
The hill fort also has a record on the Devon & Dartmoor HER: MDV7957, which tells us the fort is thought to be of early Iron Age date.
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