Location
- Atlas number
- EN0149 (149)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Oxfordshire
- Historic county
- Oxfordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bladon
- National Grid reference
- SP 4568 1381
- Latitude
- 51.82097
- Longitude
- -1.33859
- Altitude
- 113 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
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and other burning
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1705); Excavation (1987); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1013234
- HER
- Oxfordshire 1376 (second identifier MOX260)
- National record
- record SP 4 1 SE 19; monument 336736
- Wikidata
- Q31116553
Sources
References
- Manning, P. and Leeds, E.T. 1921. An archaeological survey of Oxfordshire. London: Society of Antiquaries.
- Oxford University Archaeological Society, 1988. Bladon Round Castle 1987. 1988. S Midlands Archaeol, 18, 94.
- Page, W. (ed) 1907. The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, Vol II. London, 310.
- Plot, R. 1705. The natural History of Oxfordshire.
- Sutton, J.E.G. 1966. Iron-Age hill-forts and some other earthworks in Oxfordshire, Oxoniensia, 31, 28-42.