Location
- Atlas number
- EN0411 (411)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Norton Bavant
- National Grid reference
- ST91284424
- Latitude
- 51.19727
- Longitude
- -2.12620
- Altitude
- 196 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 8
- Enclosed area
- 17 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- guard chambers, ditches, and gang working
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (North west); Recesses/Guard Chambers (North west); Oblique (East); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms, other roundhouse evidence, and quarry hollows
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887); Excavation (1957); Other (1984); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Excavation (1800-1810); Other (None-None); LiDAR Survey (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1010213
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI3858
- National record
- record ST 94 SW 1; monument 211396
- Wikidata
- Q31116846
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, 93, 269.