Location
- Atlas number
- EN0392 (392)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Steeple Langford
- National Grid reference
- SU04833579
- Latitude
- 51.12132
- Longitude
- -1.93239
- Altitude
- 152 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and 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
- 5.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and quarry hollows
- Finds
- pottery and human bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887); Excavation (1950); Excavation (1974); Other (1984); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Earthwork Survey (1985-2003)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005604
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI6162
- National record
- record SU 03 NW 21; monument 214511
- Wikidata
- Q31116728
Sources
References
- Colt Hoare, R.C. 1810. The Ancient History of Wiltshire, 1, London: Miller, 111.
- Geophysical Surveys of Bradford 1989. Report on Geophysical Survey: Longbridge Deverill, Grovely Castle, Parsonage Down & Hamshill, Wiltshire/Spring 1989, Geophysical Surveys of Bradford Reports.
- Pugh, R.B. and Crittall, E. 1957. A history of Wiltshire, 1.1, The Victoria History of the Counties of England, London: OUP, 208.