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Giant's Grave
Wiltshire, England · Atlas EN0409
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0409 (409)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wilcot
- National Grid reference
- SU16636324
- Latitude
- 51.36796
- Longitude
- -1.76244
- Altitude
- 250 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005696
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI14756
- National record
- record SU 16 SE 4; monument 220987
- Wikidata
- Q31116836
Sources
References
- Bowden M. 2005. The middle Iron Age on the Marlborough Downs, in eds G. Brown, D. Field and D. McOmish, The Avebury landscape, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 156-63.
- Pugh, R.B. and Crittall, E. eds 1957. A history of Wiltshire, 1.1, The Victoria history of the counties of England, Oxford: OUP, 121, 270.