Hillsborough - Ilfracombe

DTM- (Digital Terrain Model, i.e. No buildings or foliage) Just as you leave Ilfracombe to the east along the A399 you will pass the large promontory fort, Hillsborough at Hele Bay. Twin ramparts around 160m long protected the site from the southwest. 19th century quarrying degraded the eastern ramparts. Geophys in 2012 found evidence of a large roundhouse. Surface finds include flint tools, now at the Ilfracombe Museum. Unexcavated, hence undated. 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.]