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Trendle earthwork is a prehistoric defensive enclosure situated north-east of Kelly College in Devon. The monument comprises a roughly circular or oval arrangement of banks and ditches, characteristic of Iron Age hill fort construction, though its exact chronology remains subject to archaeological interpretation. The earthwork's modest scale and topographical setting suggest it may have served as a livestock enclosure or defended settlement for a community of limited size during the later prehistoric period. As a surviving example of Devon's Iron Age fortified landscape, it represents an important element of regional archaeological evidence for settlement patterns and land use in the first millennium before the Christian era.
Trendle earthwork NE of Kelly College is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002598. View the official record →
Trendle earthwork is a prehistoric defensive enclosure situated north-east of Kelly College in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002598.
Trendle earthwork NE of Kelly College is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1002598.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Camp NE of Berra Tor (6.3 km), Morwellham Quay: transport infrastructure, part of the water control system and a manganese mill (7 km), Gawton arsenic mine and flue (7.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Trendle earthwork NE of Kelly College's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Trendle earthwork NE of Kelly College stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Carboniferous, bedrock that formed in the Carboniferous. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.