Location
- Atlas number
- EN0022 (22)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Herefordshire
- Historic county
- Herefordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ganarew
- National Grid reference
- SO 539160
- Latitude
- 51.84065
- Longitude
- -2.67056
- Altitude
- 221 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 7.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms, other roundhouse evidence, and quarry hollows
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, animal bones, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Earthwork Survey (2009); Other (2012); Excavation (2009-2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1001766
- HER
- Herefordshire MHE213 (second identifier 901)
- National record
- record SO 51 NW 6; monument 109665
- Wikidata
- Q31114183
Sources
References
- Bowden, M. 2009. Little Doward, Ganarew, Herefordshire. Analytical Earthwork Survey of the Hillfort and Rapid Landscape Investigation. English Heritage Research Department Report Series. 72-2009.
- Clarke, S. and Bray, J. 2009. Little Doward Camp, Ganarew. A Programme of Archaeological Work for the Woodland Trust, Unpublished report Monmouth Archaeolaeology, MA09.09.
- Dorling, P. and Wigley, A. 2012: Assessment of the archaeological and conservation status of major later prehistoric enclosures in Herefordshire and Shropshire, EH PNUM, Version 3.2, Hereford and Shrewsbury: Herefordshire Council/Shropshire Council.
- Dorling, P., Cotton, J. and Rimmington, N. 2012: Little Doward hillfort, Ganarew, Herefordshire. A report on excavations in 2009 and 2011, Hereford: Herefordshire Archaeology Report 295.
- Page, W. ed.1908. The Victoria County History of the County of Herefordshire, 1, 210-11, London: St Catherine Press.
- RCHME 1931-34. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, 1 (SW), 68-9, 2, London: HMSO.
- Rimmington, N. 2008. Little Doward Camp, Ganarew Parish, Unpublished report Herefordshire Archaeology Report 229.
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