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Cookham Dean
Berkshire, England · Atlas EN0174
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0174 (174)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Berkshire
- Historic county
- Berkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cookham
- National Grid reference
- SU 8680 8430
- Latitude
- 51.55114
- Longitude
- -0.74946
- Altitude
- 91 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1907); Excavation (1993); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1937-1961)
Identifiers
- HER
- Berkshire RW15748
- Wikidata
- Q31117341
Sources
References
- Darby S. 1909. Chapters in the History of Cookham, 21-22.
- Ford, S. 1993, Harwood House Nursing Home, Cookham Dean, Berkshire - An archaeological evaluation for Harwood House Nursing Home. Thames Valley Archaeological Services, Report 93/2. http://www.tvas.co.uk/reports/pdf/93-02ev.pdf. Accessed November 2015
- Over L and Tyrrell C. 1994. The Royal Hundred of Cookham, 22.
- Peake, H. 1931. The Archaeology of Berkshire, 66 and 190.