Stockland Devon Angleterre
Stockland Great Castle is a large Iron Age hillfort in the parish of Stockland, East Devon.
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Stockland Great Castle is a large Iron Age hillfort in the parish of Stockland, East Devon. It lies on an east-facing slope just below the crest of the Greensand ridge, between the Umborne Brook and the River Yarty. Because the site has no natural defences, its builders raised massive earthworks: a single rampart up to 17 m wide and about 3 m high on its inner face, fronted by a ditch about 7 m wide and at least 2 m deep. On the north-east side the combined scarp exceeds 6 m. The irregular interior (about 230 m by 270 m) covers nearly 4 ha. Fortifications of this type mostly date from between the 4th century BC and the 1st century AD. A modern road crosses the monument from east to west. North of the road the rampart and ditch are still impressive; to the south, ploughing has reduced them to a slight rise. A probably original entrance, perhaps with inturned sides, opens to the east. A gap on the north-west, filled by an earth and flint causeway, is later. Sling stones were found there by chance in the 19th and 20th centuries, but the site has never been excavated. It is associated with an ancient ridgeway and with the Stockland Little Castle enclosure, 900 m to the north-east. The site is a Scheduled Monument.
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Le récit
Hillfort univallaire probablement construit et occupé entre le IVe siècle av. J.-C. et le Ier siècle apr. J.-C. ; brèche nord-ouest postérieure ; balles de fronde signalées aux XIXe et XXe siècles. Protégé depuis 1924 (révision 1998).
L’architecture
Rempart unique de terre et de pierre large de 17 m au plus, revêtu par endroits de chert, précédé d'un fossé d'environ 7 m ; contrescarpe possible au sud ; entrée orientale à remparts rentrants.
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