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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Cranbrook CastleCountry: England County: Devon Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Bovey Tracey Nearest Village: Easton
Map Ref: SX7386889010 Landranger Map Number: 191
Latitude: 50.687030N Longitude: 3.786913W
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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
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lauraaurora visited on 4th Apr 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 3
TheCaptain saw from a distance on 26th Feb 2019 Cranbrook Castle hillfort can be seen to the northwest of Butterdon Down. I decide that with it only being February, and with it getting dark by 5:00pm, I will not visit, but go for a pint in the Union Inn at Moretomhampstead before heading out to Houndtor.
graemefield visited on 6th Aug 2008 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.5 Ambience: 4 Access: 3
Update September 2019: This site is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for Cranbrook Castle Fort, which includes a photograph and description. PDW tells us: "The outer rampart cuts or overlies the banks of an earlier field system. Upwards of 30 clearance cairns are visible in the interior; date unknown. The outer defences on the east and west sides are clearly incomplete. On the north side the inner rampart line is marked by 2 very low linear dumps of stone, which appear to have acted as markers for the front and rear of the rampart".
The fort is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 445462, which tells us this is an unfinished Iron Age multivallate hillfort. The Devon and Dartmoor HER also includes an entry: MDV8221 (Cranbrook Castle).
The hillfort is also scheduled as Historic England List ID 1003860 (Cranbrook Castle), which adds: "The hillfort survives as a square enclosure measuring 160m across internally. It is defined to the north by a single rampart. To the east, west and south is a substantial rampart bank with a stone core, some stone revetment and a deep outer ditch. Whilst to the south and south west only is a further ditched counterscarp bank. There are two entrances to the interior, a simple gap with causeway to the east and to the south west a causewayed gap". HE adds the cairns within the northern part of the hillfort are thought to be clearance cairns from past cultivation of the interior of the fort.
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