Location
- Atlas number
- EN0135 (135)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Oxfordshire
- Historic county
- Oxfordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tadmarton
- National Grid reference
- SP 3879 3566
- Latitude
- 52.01802
- Longitude
- -1.43609
- Altitude
- 195 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 1.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable and heath
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1705); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006370
- HER
- Oxfordshire 1621 (second identifier MOX23)
- National record
- record SP 33 NE 10; monument 335064
- Wikidata
- Q31116380
Sources
References
- Manning, P. and Leeds, E.T. 1921. An archaeological survey of Oxfordshire. London: Society of Antiquaries.
- Page, W. (ed) 1907. The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, Vol II. London, 316-7.
- Plot, R. 1705. The natural history of Oxfordshire, 342.
- Sutton, J.E.G. 1966. Iron-Age hill-forts and some other earthworks in Oxfordshire, Oxoniensia, 31, 28-42.