Hembury Castle

DTM- (Digital Terrain Model, i.e. No buildings or foliage) In between Broadhembury and Godford Cross with commanding views over both villages lies the large complex multivallate contour hillfort, Hembury Fort. One of the few hillforts to be built over a neolithic causewayed enclosure. First excavated in 1930. Next excavation in 1983. Both found neolithic features & finds including partial greenstone axes, leaf arrowheads and pottery. C14 Dates for neolithic material, circa 3690BC. Additional C14 dates from a hearth yield 800BC. Glastonbury Ware iron age pottery finds. Fort abandoned 100BC. Roman re-occupation circa 50-60AD. Site of St Andrews Day fair from the medieval period until the 19th century. Iron Age tribal association (conjecture based on location): Dumnonii (Scheduled Monument) [Any descriptive text is attributed to the Atlas of Hillforts & Wikipedia websites and any associated archaeological descriptions online which will be credited accordingly.]