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Harborough Bank
Oxfordshire, England · Atlas EN0159
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0159 (159)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Oxfordshire
- Historic county
- Oxfordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lower Heyford
- National Grid reference
- SP 4936 2437
- Latitude
- 51.91568
- Longitude
- -1.28370
- Altitude
- 119 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 4.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hornwork (West); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Other
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1606)
Identifiers
- HER
- Oxfordshire 5608 (second identifier MOX3512)
- National record
- record SP 42 SE 17; monument 336910
- Wikidata
- Q31116490
Sources
References
- Bloomfield, J.C. 1892. History of lower and upper Heyford.
- Ray, K. 1991. Cherwell District: Lower Heyford. S Midlands Archaeol, 21, 79-80.