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Rams Hill
Oxfordshire, England · Atlas EN0167
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0167 (167)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Oxfordshire
- Historic county
- Berkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Uffington
- National Grid reference
- SU 3143 8630
- Latitude
- 51.57465
- Longitude
- -1.54787
- Altitude
- 238 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- 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
- 3.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (West); Blocked (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (963); Other (1974); Other (2003); Excavation (1938-1939); Excavation (1972-1973)
Identifiers
- HER
- Oxfordshire 10556 (second identifier MOX10014)
- National record
- record SU 38 NW 5; monument 229217
- Wikidata
- Q31116516
Sources
References
- Piggott, C. and Piggott, S. 1940. Excavations at Rams Hill, Uffington, Berkshire. Antiq J, 20, 465-80.
- Bradley, R. and Ellison, A. 1975. Rams Hill. Oxford: BAR Brit Ser 19.
- Needham, S. and Ambers, J, 1994. Redating Rams Hill and reconsidering Bronze Age enclosure, Proc Prehist Soc, 60, 225-243.