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Abingdon, The Vineyard
Oxfordshire, England · Atlas EN0173
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0173 (173)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Oxfordshire
- Historic county
- Berkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Abingdon
- National Grid reference
- SU 499 972
- Latitude
- 51.67176
- Longitude
- -1.27909
- Altitude
- 58 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 33 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- valley bottom
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, animal bones, and environmental material
- Investigations
- Excavation (1989-1994)
Identifiers
- HER
- Oxfordshire 12849.01 (second identifier MOX11022)
- National record
- record SU 49 NE 9; monument 233902
- Wikidata
- Q31116565
Sources
References
- Allen, T. 1991. An 'oppidum' at Abingdon, Oxfordshire. S Midlands Archaeol, 21, 97-9.
- Allen, T. 1993. Abingdon, Abingdon Vineyard 1992: Areas 2 and 3, the early defences. S Midlands Archaeol, 23, 64-6.
- Allen, T. 1994. Abingdon, Abingdon Vineyard, Area 3. S Midlands Archaeol, 24, 33.
- 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, 362-5.