About: Cow Castle

An Entity of Type: historic place, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Cow Castle is an Iron Age hillfort 5.75 kilometres (4 mi) West South West of Exford, Somerset, England within the Exmoor National Park. It is a Scheduled Monument. It has been added to the heritage at Risk register because of the risk from bracken. It is situated on an isolated hilltop and has a single rampart and ditch, adapted to its location and enclosing 0.9 hectares, with a commanding position over the valley of the River Barle. It is 1.2 ha in area and surrounded by a rampart, up to 2m high.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Cow Castle is an Iron Age hillfort 5.75 kilometres (4 mi) West South West of Exford, Somerset, England within the Exmoor National Park. It is a Scheduled Monument. It has been added to the heritage at Risk register because of the risk from bracken. It is situated on an isolated hilltop and has a single rampart and ditch, adapted to its location and enclosing 0.9 hectares, with a commanding position over the valley of the River Barle. It is 1.2 ha in area and surrounded by a rampart, up to 2m high. It is in a good condition, and is expected to contain significant and environmental evidence. Legend says that the hillfort was built by fairies to protect themselves against the earth. (en)
dbo:location
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 17133967 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 5472 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1084576165 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:built
dbp:caption
  • Cow Castle (en)
dbp:designation
  • Scheduled Monument (en)
dbp:designation1Date
  • 1963-05-20 (xsd:date)
dbp:designation1Number
  • 1002955 (xsd:integer)
dbp:designation1Offname
  • Cow Castle (en)
dbp:location
  • Exford, Somerset, England (en)
dbp:locmapin
  • Somerset (en)
dbp:name
  • Cow Castle (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
georss:point
  • 51.12277777777778 -3.727222222222222
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Cow Castle is an Iron Age hillfort 5.75 kilometres (4 mi) West South West of Exford, Somerset, England within the Exmoor National Park. It is a Scheduled Monument. It has been added to the heritage at Risk register because of the risk from bracken. It is situated on an isolated hilltop and has a single rampart and ditch, adapted to its location and enclosing 0.9 hectares, with a commanding position over the valley of the River Barle. It is 1.2 ha in area and surrounded by a rampart, up to 2m high. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Cow Castle (en)
owl:sameAs
geo:geometry
  • POINT(-3.7272222042084 51.122776031494)
geo:lat
  • 51.122776 (xsd:float)
geo:long
  • -3.727222 (xsd:float)
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Cow Castle (en)
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:name of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License