Location
- Atlas number
- EN0404 (404)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Durnford
- National Grid reference
- SU14323829
- Latitude
- 51.14368
- Longitude
- -1.79669
- Altitude
- 110 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 6
- Enclosed area
- 26 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1649); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1812); Other (1984); Other (2001); Excavation (1800-1810); Other (1877-1878); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005677
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI10612
- National record
- record SU 13 NW 9; monument 218235
- Wikidata
- Q31116802
Sources
References
- Hoare, R.C. 1812. The ancient history of South Wiltshire, Vol 1, London: William Miller, 219-20, (re-published 1975, Wakefield: EP publishing).
- Pugh, R.B. and Crittall, E. eds 1957. A history of Wiltshire, 1.1, The Victoria history of the counties of England, Oxford: OUP, 65, 265.