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Broadbury Banks
Wiltshire, England ยท Atlas EN0395
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0395 (395)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wilsford
- National Grid reference
- SU09275554
- Latitude
- 51.29888
- Longitude
- -1.86838
- Altitude
- 180 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Excavation (1800-1810); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886-1887); Other (2008-2009)
Identifiers
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI7285
- National record
- record SU 05 NE 14; monument 215210
- Wikidata
- Q31116703
Sources
References
- Field, D., Martin, L. and Winton, H. 2009. The Hatfield Earthworks, Marden, Wiltshire: survey and investigation, Centre for Archaeology Report No 96-2009.
- Hoare, R.C. 1812. Ancient Wiltshire South, 177.
- McOmish, D., Field, D. and Brown, G. 2002. The Field Archaeology of Salisbury Plain Training Area, Swindon: English Heritage, 81.
- Pugh, R.B. and Crittall, E. 1957. A history of Wiltshire, 1.1, The Victoria History of the Counties of England, London: OUP, 270.