<< Text Pages >> Holbury Camp (Devon) - Hillfort in England in Devon
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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Holbury Camp (Devon)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 7.23 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Devon Type: Hillfort
Map Ref: SX62385049
Latitude: 50.338213N Longitude: 3.935232W
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 |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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MortenKiil visited on 16th Apr 2013 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 2 Access: 4 Holbury seems to mean Hollow fortification...
From Pastscape: "Iron Age slight univallate hillfort also known as Oldbury Camp and Castle Paise located 750 metres east of Holwell Lodge and including 2 outworks to north and west of the hillfort. Several other hillforts can be seen from the single rampart which includes a bank, outer ditch and counterscarp. The hillfort has a single rampart 280m long by 220m wide across the visible earthwork, straddling the 80m to 90m contour.The bank survives best on the north side where it rises o.8m from the interior at the west end to 2.3m at the east. On average it is 7m wide, but this increases to 10m to 12m by 2.6m high in the north east corner. The east, west and south ramparts are fossilised in hedge banks but mainly survive as scarps 5m wide. The ditch has been largely filled in and is on average 15m wide and 0.2m deep to the south, east and west side. On the north side a modern track follows the ditch where it is 10m wide and 0.4m deep at the west end and 0.8m deep at the east. A counterscarp bank here is 8m wide by 0.4m high, but has been reduced by ploughing elsewhere. There are 3 original entrances with associated outworks; 2 to the north east and north west. A third lies to the west but is now blocked. A fourth entrance is of modern date and is on the south side. Scheduled."
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