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Castle Bank
Oxfordshire, England ยท Atlas EN0162
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0162 (162)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Oxfordshire
- Historic county
- Oxfordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- North Newington
- National Grid reference
- SP 4056 4087
- Latitude
- 52.06477
- Longitude
- -1.40888
- Altitude
- 152 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1841); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1021414
- HER
- Oxfordshire 1769 (second identifier MOX4171)
- National record
- record SP 44 SW 5; monument 337250
- Wikidata
- Q31116649
Sources
References
- Page, W. (ed) 1907. The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, Vol II. London, 318-9.
- Beesley, A. 1841. The history of Banbury: including copious historical and antiquarian notices of the neighbourhood. London: Nichols and son, 43-44.
- Manning, P. and Leeds, E.T. 1921. An archaeological survey of Oxfordshire. London: Society of Antiquaries.
- Sutton, J.E.G. 1966. Iron-Age hill-forts and some other earthworks in Oxfordshire, Oxoniensia, 31, 28-42.