LiDAR 1m DTM Hillshade
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LiDAR 1m DTM Hillshade
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HER: Devon MDV7630 (None)
NMR: SX 75 SE 11 (444676)
SM: 1019237
NGR: SX78425321
X: 278420 Y: 53225 (OSGB36)
Univallate, level terrain hillfort located on col between two steep stream valleys to ENE and WSW. Boreston Brook on NW-NE flowing into River Dart estuary on NE. Steep slopes to E and W, moderate to N and S. Sub-circular shape, with internal area 1.2ha. Bisected E-W by main Dartmouth to Halwell road, bifurcating on W. N half in fair condition with prominent rampart to 2.6 m high externally, used as a field boundary and above remains wide, silted ditch. This ditch and the interior regularly ploughed. On S half barn outbuildings and gravelled yards within interior, where rampart a hedge bank, 1.5m high and c. 1.8m wide, on SW, with traces of outer ditch, but destroyed on SE with hint of ditch. Fragments of banks in roadside verges and hedges. Entrance probably destroyed by road. On 1st Ed. OS map (1887-88). Minimal investigations, undated.
Citizen Science: ✗
Reliability of Data: Confirmed
Reliability of Interpretation: Confirmed
X: -413094 Y: 6509949 (EPSG: 3857)
Longitude: -3.7108854276663896 Latitude: 50.36626190374915 (EPSG:4326)
Country: England
Current County or Unitary Authority: Devon
Historic County: Devon
Current Parish/Community/Council/Townland: Halwell and Moreleigh
N side improved pasture and reasonably intact, but N interior and ditch regularly ploughed. A3122 cuts through site E-W, bifurcating on W, and barn outbuildings and gravelled yards within interior on S, where rampart in hedgebank on SW, but destroyed on SE. On Heritage at Risk Register (2015).
| Extant | ✓ |
| Cropmark | ✗ |
| Likely Destroyed | ✓ |
N part improved pasture, Main road passes through and development on S.
| Woodland | ✗ |
| Commercial Forestry Plantation | ✗ |
| Parkland | ✗ |
| Pasture (Grazing) | ✓ |
| Arable | ✗ |
| Scrub/Bracken | ✗ |
| Bare Outcrop | ✗ |
| Heather/Moorland | ✗ |
| Heath | ✗ |
| Built-up | ✓ |
| Coastal Grassland | ✗ |
| Other | ✓ |
Univallate, level terrain hillfort located on col between to steep stream valleys to ENE and WSW. Boreston Brook on NW-NE flowing into River Dart estuary on NE. Steep slopes to E and W, moderate to N and S.
| Contour Fort | ✗ |
| Partial Contour Fort | ✗ |
| Promontory Fort | ✗ |
| Hillslope Fort | ✗ |
| Level Terrain Fort | ✓ |
| Marsh Fort | ✗ |
| Multiple Enclosure Fort | ✗ |
| Hilltop | ✗ |
| Coastal Promontory | ✗ |
| Inland Promontory | ✗ |
| Valley Bottom | ✗ |
| Knoll/Hillock/Outcrop | ✗ |
| Ridge | ✓ |
| Cliff/Plateau-edge/Scarp | ✗ |
| Hillslope | ✗ |
| Lowland | ✗ |
| Spur | ✗ |
Dominant Topographic Feature: Col between to stream valleys.
| North | ✗ |
| Northeast | ✗ |
| East | ✗ |
| Southeast | ✗ |
| South | ✗ |
| Southwest | ✗ |
| West | ✗ |
| Northwest | ✗ |
| Level | ✓ |
Altitude: 190.0m
N/A
None.
Reliability: D - None
| Pre 1200BC | ✗ |
| 1200BC - 800BC | ✗ |
| 800BC - 400BC | ✗ |
| 400BC - AD50 | ✗ |
| AD50 - AD400 | ✗ |
| AD400 - AD 800 | ✗ |
| Post AD800 | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✓ |
| Pre Hillfort: | Possibly. Cropmarks of late Neolithic to late Bronze Age bowl barrows in field to N of site. |
| Post Hillfort: | Possibly reused as a Saxon fortification in 9th or 10th century AD. |
On 1st Ed. OS map (1887-88). Measured survey English Heritage 2000.
| Earthwork Survey (2000): | Measured survey English Heritage. |
| 1st Identified Map Depiction (None): | OS map. |
None.
None
| None | ✓ |
| Spring | ✗ |
| Stream | ✗ |
| Pool | ✗ |
| Flush | ✗ |
| Well | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| No Known Features | ✓ |
| Round Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Rectangular Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Curvilinear Platforms | ✗ |
| Other Roundhouse Evidence | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| No Known Excavation | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
None
| No Known Geophysics | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
None
| No Known Finds | ✓ |
| Pottery | ✗ |
| Metal | ✗ |
| Metalworking | ✗ |
| Human Bones | ✗ |
| Animal Bones | ✗ |
| Lithics | ✗ |
| Environmental | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| APs Not Checked | ✓ |
| None | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
Five modern gaps. Entrance(s) probably destroyed by road.
| 5: | All gaps modern. |
| 2: | Probably destroyed by road. |
Guard Chambers: ✗
Chevaux de Frise: ✗
N half in fair condition with prominent rampart to 2.6 m high externally, used as a field boundary and above remains wide, silted ditch. This ditch and the interior regularly ploughed. On S half barn outbuildings and gravelled yards within interior, where rampart a hedgebank, 1.5m high and c. 1.8m wide, on SW, but destroyed on SE with hint of ditch. Fragments of banks in roadside verges and hedges.
| Area 1: | 1.2ha. |
| Total: | 1.2ha. |
Total Footprint Area: Noneha.
None
| ✗ | None |
| ✗ | SW rampart hedgebank. |
| NE Quadrant: | 1 |
| SE Quadrant: | 0 |
| SW Quadrant: | 1 |
| NW Quadrant: | 1 |
| Total: | 1 |
| Partial Univallate | ✓ |
| Univallate | ✗ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✗ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✗ |
| Partial Univallate | ✗ |
| Univallate | ✗ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✗ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
None
| None | ✗ |
| Earthen Bank | ✓ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Rubble | ✗ |
| Wall-walk | ✗ |
| Evidence of Timber | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| None | ✗ |
| Earthen Bank | ✗ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Murus Duplex | ✗ |
| Timber-framed | ✗ |
| Timber-laced | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| No Known Excavation | ✓ |
| Other | ✗ |
| ✗ | None |
| ✓ | Remains of silted ditch on N. Hint on SE, trace on SW. |
Number of Ditches: 1
| ✗ | None |
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Lock, Gary and Ralston, Ian. 2024. Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland. Available at: https://hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk
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