Location
- Atlas number
- EN0099 (99)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ramsbury
- Also recorded in
- West Berkshire
- National Grid reference
- SU 30214 75285
- Latitude
- 51.47567
- Longitude
- -1.56636
- Altitude
- 206 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 6
- Enclosed area
- 13.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, arable, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1882); Other (1999-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003818
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI430213 (second identifier MWB3075)
- National record
- record SU 37 NW 6; monument 228970
- Wikidata
- Q6815155
Sources
- Atlas of Hillforts record
- Wikipedia
- Wikidata
- Historic England list entry
- Historic England research record
References
- Ditchfield, P.H. and Page, W. 1906. The Victoria County History of Berkshire, 1, Haymarket: James Street, 260.
- Pugh, R.B. and Crittall, E. 1957. A history of Wiltshire, 1.1, The Victoria History of the Counties of England, London: OUP, 269.