Location
- Atlas number
- EN0410 (410)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Milton Libourne
- National Grid reference
- SU17406397
- Latitude
- 51.37447
- Longitude
- -1.75141
- Altitude
- 289 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
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 15
- Enclosed area
- 13 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Outworks (North east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and animal bones
- Investigations
- Other (1907); Other (1976); Geophysical Survey (1996); 1st Identified Written Reference (1201-1300); Other (1665-1693); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886-1887); 1st Identified Written Reference (701-800)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1065676
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI14758
- National record
- record SU 16 SE 6; monument 220993
- Wikidata
- Q31116837
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.
- Payne, A., Corney, M. and Cunliffe, B. 2006. The Wessex Hillforts Project. Extensive survey of hillfort interiors in Cenral Southern England, London: English Heritage, 118-23.
- Pugh, R.B. and Crittall, E. eds 1957. A history of Wiltshire, 1.1, The Victoria history of the counties of England, Oxford: OUP, 180.