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Cassington Ring
Oxfordshire, England · Atlas EN0134
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0134 (134)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Oxfordshire
- Historic county
- Oxfordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cassington
- National Grid reference
- SP44891005
- Latitude
- 51.78727
- Longitude
- -1.35061
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 5.3 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- valley bottom
- Aspect
- level
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Other (1933); Excavation (1940-1970)
Identifiers
- HER
- Oxfordshire 15053 (second identifier MOX1064)
- National record
- record SP 41 SW 7; monument 336777
- Wikidata
- Q31116372
Sources
References
- Cunliffe, B. and Rowley, T. (eds) 1976. Oppida: the beginnings of urbanisation in Barbarian Europe, BAR Int Ser 11, 328.
- Sutton, J.E.G. 1966. Iron-Age hill-forts and some other earthworks in Oxfordshire, Oxoniensia, 31, 28-42.
- Benson, D. and Miles, D. 1974. The Upper Thames Valley, an archaeological survey of the river gravels. Oxford: OAU Survey 2, 84-87.
- Lambrick, G. 2009. Thames Through Time. The archaeology of the gravel terraces of the upper and middle Thames. Late prehistory 1500 BC - AD 50. Oxford: Oxford Archaeology, Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph No. 29.