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Burroway
Oxfordshire, England · Atlas EN0145
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0145 (145)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Oxfordshire
- Historic county
- Oxfordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Clanfield
- National Grid reference
- SP 3089 0037
- Latitude
- 51.70096
- Longitude
- -1.55450
- Altitude
- 68 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, timber-framed wall, and other burning
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Outworks (North west); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- valley bottom
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Excavation (1962); Excavation (1983)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1013417
- HER
- Oxfordshire 2426 (second identifier MOX204)
- National record
- record SP 30 SW 14; monument 767712
- Wikidata
- Q31116508
Sources
References
- Sturdy, G. and Case, H.J. 1961-2. Archaeological notes. Oxoniensia, 26-7, 336-9.
- Lambrick, G. 1984. Clanfield: Burroway. S Midlands Archaeol, 14, 104-5.
- 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, 356-7.