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Budbury
Wiltshire, England · Atlas EN0424
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0424 (424)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bradford on Avon
- National Grid reference
- ST82136113
- Latitude
- 51.34855
- Longitude
- -2.25754
- Altitude
- 91 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 2.5 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery, metal, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1969)
Identifiers
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI1950
- National record
- record ST 86 SW 200
- Wikidata
- Q31116900
Sources
References
- Wainwright, G. 1970. An Iron Age promontory fort at Budbury, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire., Wiltshire Archaeol Natur Hist Mag, 65, 108-66.