Cranmore Castle

DTM- (Digital Terrain Model, i.e. No buildings or foliage) Overlooking Tiverton from the south and embedded within a field system lies the partial contour hillfort, Cranmore Castle. Small excavation in 1930. Details lost. Chance finds of Bronze Age blade and Iron Age & Saxon coins on slopes below hillfort. Heavily degraded by ploughing. Two small quarries in interior. There was a battle here in 1649 where the insurgents were defeated by Royalist troops. Iron Age tribal association (conjecture based on location): Dumnonii (Scheduled Monument) [Any descriptive text is attributed to the Atlas of Hillforts & Historic England websites and any associated archaeological descriptions online which will be credited accordingly.]