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Bilbury Rings
Wiltshire, England · Atlas EN0391
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0391 (391)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wylye
- National Grid reference
- SU010362
- Latitude
- 51.12540
- Longitude
- -1.98711
- Altitude
- 170 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant, Cropmark, and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1810); Other (1887); Excavation (1934); Other (1984); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Excavation (1800-1810); Excavation (1959-1964); Earthwork Survey (1983-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005601
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI6159
- National record
- record SU 03 NW 10; monument 214484
- Wikidata
- Q31116715
Sources
References
- Anon 1961-63. Excavation and fieldwork in Wiltshire 1960, Wiltshire Archaeol Natur Hist Mag, 58, 32-4.
- Anon 1961-63. Excavation and fieldwork in Wiltshire 1961, Wiltshire Archaeol Natur Hist Mag, 58, 243-44..
- Anon 1961-63. Excavation and fieldwork in Wiltshire 1962, Wiltshire Archaeol Natur Hist Mag, 58, 468-69.
- Anon 1964. Excavation and fieldwork in Wiltshire 1963, Wiltshire Archaeol Natur Hist MagI, 59, 186-87.
- Anon 1965. Excavation and fieldwork in Wiltshire 1964, Wiltshire Archaeol Natur Hist MagI, 60, 13.
- Colt Hoare, R.C. 1810. The Ancient History of Wiltshire, 1, London: Miller, 108.
- Crittall, E. ed 1973. A history of Wiltshire, 1.2, Victoria History of the Counties of England, 436, London: OUP.
- Pugh, R.B. and Crittall, E. 1957. A history of Wiltshire, 1.1, The Victoria History of the Counties of England, London: OUP, 250.