LiDAR 1m DTM Hillshade
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HER: Devon MDV2925 (None)
NMR: SX 65 NE 39 (None)
SM: 1019325
NGR: SX692586
X: 269200 Y: 58600 (OSGB36)
Possible hillslope fort located on N-facing hillside sloping to W towards Glaze valley, at SW end of Yellowberries Copse, W of Higher Turtley. Extensive views to Dartmoor to N. Ovoid in shape, lying along contour aligned NE-SW. Interior measures c. 90m wide by 100m long, with area estimated 0.9ha. Formerly defined by rampart, best on E and N, 8m wide and 0.4m and 1m high, with outer ditch to 10m wide and 0.5m-0.9m deep. Original inturned entrance was on SW, where rampart widened to c. 16m and to 1.2 metres high. Now heavily damaged by ploughing and S side gone, adjoining field ploughed to perimeter, now hedgeline. On SE ditch, c. 2.4m wide, nearly 1m deep, on outer side of a hedge. To N ditch visible as terrace, the outer edge sloping steeply downhill and gone on W, here rampart showing as change of slope. The entrance now lost in a hedge and ploughing of next field. The interior slopes down steeply to NW, with two earthwork terraces running across the site. Rough grass and scrub. On 1st Ed. OS map (1887).
Citizen Science: ✗
Reliability of Data: Confirmed
Reliability of Interpretation: Unconfirmed
X: -427726 Y: 6518039 (EPSG: 3857)
Longitude: -3.8423289672992755 Latitude: 50.41259756699696 (EPSG:4326)
Country: England
Current County or Unitary Authority: Devon
Historic County: Devon
Current Parish/Community/Council/Townland: Ugborough
Much plough damaged and ramparts and ditch lost over large area. Extent of damage substantial. Ditch overlain on E by access track for telecommunications mast. Exact condition not determined. On Heritage at Risk Register 2011.
| Extant | ✓ |
| Cropmark | ✗ |
| Likely Destroyed | ✗ |
Rough grass and scrub.
| Woodland | ✗ |
| Commercial Forestry Plantation | ✗ |
| Parkland | ✗ |
| Pasture (Grazing) | ✓ |
| Arable | ✗ |
| Scrub/Bracken | ✓ |
| Bare Outcrop | ✗ |
| Heather/Moorland | ✗ |
| Heath | ✗ |
| Built-up | ✗ |
| Coastal Grassland | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
Possible hillslope fort located on N-facing hillside sloping to W towards Glaze valley, at SW end of Yellowberries Copse, W of Higher Turtley. Interior slopes steeply to NW.
| 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: Hillslope
| North | ✗ |
| Northeast | ✗ |
| East | ✗ |
| Southeast | ✗ |
| South | ✗ |
| Southwest | ✗ |
| West | ✗ |
| Northwest | ✓ |
| Level | ✗ |
Altitude: 152.0m
N/A
None.
Reliability: D - None
| Pre 1200BC | ✗ |
| 1200BC - 800BC | ✗ |
| 800BC - 400BC | ✗ |
| 400BC - AD50 | ✗ |
| AD50 - AD400 | ✗ |
| AD400 - AD 800 | ✗ |
| Post AD800 | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✓ |
| Pre Hillfort: | None |
| Post Hillfort: | Medieval hollow way up hillside from N and passes outside the rampart to NW. |
On 1st Ed. OS map (1887). Site observation 1997 - no details.
| 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887): | OS map. |
| Other (1997): | Site observation - no details. |
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 | ✗ |
Original inturned entrance on SW, where rampart widened to c. 16m and to 1.2 metres high. Now lost in hedgeline.
| None: | Total breaks not determined due to damage to site. |
| 2: | None |
Guard Chambers: ✗
Chevaux de Frise: ✗
| 1. In-turned (South west): | Now lost in hedgeline. |
Formerly defined by rampart, best on E and N, 8m wide and 0.4m and 1m high, with outer ditch to 10m wide and 0.5m-0.9m deep. Now heavily damaged by ploughing and S side gone, adjoining field ploughed to perimeter, now hedgeline. On SE ditch, c. 2.4m wide, nearly 1m deep, on outer side of a hedge. To N ditch visible as terrace, the outer edge sloping steeply downhill and gone on W, here rampart showing as change of slope.
| Area 1: | 0.9ha. |
| Total: | 0.9ha. |
Total Footprint Area: Noneha.
None
| ✗ | None |
| ✗ | Quadrants estimated. Now lost on S. |
| NE Quadrant: | 1 |
| SE Quadrant: | 0 |
| SW Quadrant: | 0 |
| 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 |
| ✓ | Terrace in places. |
Number of Ditches: 1
| ✗ | None |
Wall, J.C. 1906. Ancient Earthworks, In W. Page (ed), The Victoria County History of the County of Devon, Vol I, London: James Street, Haymarket, 612.
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