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Great Woodbury
Wiltshire, England · Atlas EN0402
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0402 (402)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Britford
- National Grid reference
- SU14362784
- Latitude
- 51.04970
- Longitude
- -1.79653
- Altitude
- 95 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.6 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- Other (1924); Excavation (1938); Geophysical Survey (1990)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005652
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI9894
- National record
- record SU 12 NW 2; monument 217691
- Wikidata
- Q31116793
Sources
References
- Gaffney, C. and Gater, J. 1990. Report on Geophysical Survey. Site: Great Woodbury, Geophysical Surveys of Bradford Report No 90/63, Bradford.
- Phillips, C.W. 1940. Appendix to Little Woodbury, Proc Prehist Soc, 6, 107-110.