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Blewburton Hill
Oxfordshire, England · Atlas EN0140
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0140 (140)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Oxfordshire
- Historic county
- Berkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Aston Upthorpe
- National Grid reference
- SU 5467 8617
- Latitude
- 51.57242
- Longitude
- -1.21140
- Altitude
- 110 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 4.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, timber-framed wall, timber-laced wall, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, roundhouses, and roads or tracks
- Finds
- pottery, metal, human bones, and animal bones
- Investigations
- Excavation (1967); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1947-1953)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006301
- HER
- Oxfordshire 7609 (second identifier MOX156)
- National record
- record SU 58 NW 1; monument 237555
- Wikidata
- Q31116432
Sources
References
- Collins, A.E.P. 1947, Excavations on Blewburton Hill, 1947. Berkshire Archaeol J, 50, 4-29.
- Collins, A.E.P. 1952, Excavations on Blewburton Hill, 1948-9. Berkshire Archaeol J, 53, 21-64.
- Collins, A.E.P. and Collins, F.J. 1959, Excavations on Blewburton Hill, Berks, 1953. Berkshire Archaeol J, 57, 52-73.
- Harding, D.W. 1976. Blewburton Hill, Berkshire: Re-excavation and reappraisal, in Harding, D.W. (ed) Hillforts. Later prehistoric earthworks in Britain and Ireland. London: Academic Press, 133-146.