Posbury Hill Fort
Posbury Hill Fort is a Hill Fort of the Iron Age 3 km southwest of the town of Crediton in the English county of Devon .
From the fort, on which no excavations have been carried out so far, only incomplete earthworks are preserved today, which partially enclose the top of a hill at 180 meters above sea level.
Immediately south of the village of Posbury are the remains of an ancient Roman road that ran east to Crediton from a recently discovered Roman fort near the village of Colebrooke . The historian William George Hoskins (1908–1992) believes that this was the likely site of the Battle of Posentesburg in 661, when Cenwalh , King of Wessex , drove the tribes of British Indians from central Devon to the coast.
Today the defenses of Posbury Hill Fort are best seen from the mule track just north of the junction with the old Roman road.
Individual evidence
- ^ RR Sellman: Aspects of Devon History . Devon Books, 1985. ISBN 0-86114-756-1 . Chapter 2: The Iron Age in Devon . P. 11: The map of the Iron Age hill castles in Devon also includes Posbury Hill Fort.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 43.2 " N , 3 ° 41 ′ 26.2" W.