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<< Our Photo Pages >> Natterdon Common fort - Hillfort in England in Devon

Submitted by Bladup on Thursday, 03 March 2016  Page Views: 2100

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Natterdon Common fort
Country: England County: Devon Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Chagford
Map Ref: SX70488660
Latitude: 50.664624N  Longitude: 3.834004W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5

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Natterdon Common fort
Natterdon Common fort submitted by Bladup : The slight bank of Natterdon Common fort. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hillfort in Devon

Pastscape calls this an unfinished hillfort, but its banks are so slight that hilltop settlement may be more apt. It is made up of two enclosures and both enclosures are incomplete. The outer, approximately 120m by 140m (1.28ha) and is demarcated by a scarp averaging 2.5m in length and from 0.3m to 1.4m. in height; the inner, approximately 75m in diameter (0.4 ha), has a scarp not exceeding 2.0m in length and 0.6m in height. The earthworks are not concentric, the inter space varying from 28m in width on the south to 40m on the north-east side.

Update November 2019: This fort is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Nattadon Fort. The site is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 445576 and as MDV8261 (Nattadon Hillfort, Chagford) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER.
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Natterdon Common fort
Natterdon Common fort submitted by Bladup : Natterdon Common fort. You can see the bank running between my little monster and the outcrop that's just outside the fort (it's a perfect lookout for the fort though). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Natterdon Common fort
Natterdon Common fort submitted by Bladup : Earthworks at Natterdon Common fort. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Natterdon Common fort
Natterdon Common fort submitted by Bladup : An outcrop just to the west of the fort, Meldon hill is in the background. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Natterdon Common fort
Natterdon Common fort submitted by Bladup : The western side of Natterdon Common fort. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
SX7086 : Nattadon Common from Meldon Hill by Mark Land
by Mark Land
©2009(licence)
SX7086 : Nattadon cattle - Devon by Fiona Avis
by Fiona Avis
©2005(licence)
SX7086 : Leaving Nattadon Common by David Purchase
by David Purchase
©2019(licence)
SX7086 : Down the common [1] by Michael Dibb
by Michael Dibb
©2018(licence)
SX7086 : On Nattadon Common by Michael Dibb
by Michael Dibb
©2018(licence)

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