Location
- Atlas number
- EN0415 (415)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Little Bewyn
- National Grid reference
- SU27896597
- Latitude
- 51.39205
- Longitude
- -1.60051
- Altitude
- 176 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 2, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 5.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (South east); Hollow Way (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1773); Other (1931); Excavation (1988); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Other (1877-1882); LiDAR Survey (2001-2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1013400
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI
- National record
- record SU 26 NE 5; monument 224649
- Wikidata
- Q31116865
Sources
References
- Colt Hoare, R.C. 1819. The ancient history of Wiltshire, II, 13-14.
- Crutchley S., Small F. and Bowden M. 2009. Savernake Forest: a report for the National Mapping Programme, Centre for Archaeology Report No 29-2009.
- Pugh, R.B. and Crittall, E. eds 1957. A history of Wiltshire, 1.1, The Victoria history of the counties of England, Oxford: OUP, 83, 267.