Dumpdon Fort
Photo taken on 19-05-2024
Plan: J.C. Wall in Ancient Earthworks (1906)
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Resource: Table of Devon Iron Age Forts
OS Map: ST 17612 04058
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV1877
Alternate name: Dumpdon
Short Name: FT Dumpdon
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Fox
Cairn Class: No
Lidar: ST 17612 04058
Nearby sites: ST 17612 04058
Notes
"Small bivallate, triangular-shaped hillfort of late Iron Age date with the narrowest part pointing south. The double ramparts on the northern side are the most substantial and there is an elaborate in-turned entrance in the north-east corner. It has been suggested that the hillfort was never completed or fully occupied."References
These are selected references with an emphasis on out of copyright sources linked as PDFs. For more detailed references try any linked HER or PMD record above.
- Fox, Aileen, Prehistoric hillforts in Devon, (1996)
- Hutchinson, P. O., Hill Fortresses, Sling-Stones, and other Antiquities in South-eastern Devon, T.D.A. Vol.2 Pt.2 pp.372-382 (1868)
- Kirwan, Rev. R., Notes on the Pre-historic Archaeology of East Devon. Part 4., T.D.A. Vol.4 pt 2 pp.641-653 (1871)
- Wall, J. Charles, Ancient Earthworks, The Victoria History of the County of Devon: v. 1 pp.573-630 (1906)