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<< Text Pages >> Burridge Camp - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Devon

Submitted by vicky on Monday, 07 October 2002  Page Views: 8507

Multi-periodSite Name: Burridge Camp
Country: England County: Devon Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Barnstaple  Nearest Village: Burridge
Map Ref: SS569352  Landranger Map Number: 180
Latitude: 51.098198N  Longitude: 4.045071W
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
 2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 no data 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
 3

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Re: Burridge Camp AKA Roborough Castle [or Roborough or Pilton Camp] by AngieLake on Sunday, 04 September 2016
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Just checking out a site from an information board in Barnstaple Museum this summer and noticed we have this site page labelled differently.
It may be better-known as Roborough Hillfort, Castle, or Camp. I see it also goes by the name of Pilton Camp.

Roborough Castle, Iron Age hillfort – also Pilton or Roborough Camp:
http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?a=0&hob_id=33788&type=hillfort&class1=None&period=None&county=None&parish=None&district=None&place=&rational=a&rtype=&rnumber=&recordsperpage=10&nor=890&p=23&recfc=0&move=p&source=text&sort=2

https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/256930/135160/12/100687

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(SS 56933520) Camp (NR). (1)

Roborough Castle. A large multivallate fort, taken with its outwork, is
about 400 feet each way inside the ramparts, with a considerable
salient at the south-east corner. The single entrance, much damaged
but apparently of the overlapping type, is a few feet south of the
middle of the eastern side. The ramparts have been reduced to
scarps by erosion except where preserved by hedges and the
ditch is only evident near the south east corner.

The outlying earthwork to the east now extends for 470 feet,
terminating at a lane. It may have continued for a further
200 feet on the line of the hedge beyond the lane which would
here occupy an overlapping bank entrance. Lady Fox believed
that scarping north of the lane might indicate such an entrance. (2-3)

A probable Iron Age hill fort situated on the approximate extremity
of an east-west ridge with the land falling gently to the west
and fairly steeply to the north and south. A poor natural
defensive position. The earthwork consists of a glacis type
bank to the north and south and raised banks which have been mutilated to form field boundaries, to the east and west. The mutilated entrance was probably in the south-east where the only fragment of an outer ditch is found. The interior is partly under grass and partly crops. No trace of hut sites was found.

A probable cross-ridge outer defence 400 m to the east (extending
from SS 57423526 to SS 57443512) terminates 80 metres short
of its logical conclusion in the south. It consists of a raised and
mutilated bank with an outer ditch which teminates in the south
with a glacis type bank extending to the east. This latter portion
of bank may have been mutilated by road making or it may be a
natural feature. (4)

"Pilton that is Barnstaple" is assessed for "400 hides, less 40
hides" in the Burghal Hidage, dateable to shortly before 925.
The measured perimeters of Pilton Camp, SS 569 353, agrees well
with the circumference that can be calculated from the number
of hides. (5)
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