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Ebsbury Hill
Wiltshire, England ยท Atlas EN0427
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0427 (427)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Barford St Martin
- National Grid reference
- SU06163538
- Latitude
- 51.11762
- Longitude
- -1.91339
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant, Cropmark, and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 28 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and lithics
- Investigations
- Other (2001); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1980-1989); Other (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005604
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI3686
- National record
- record SU 03 NE 5; monument 214402
- Wikidata
- Q31116905
Sources
References
- Pugh, R.B. and Crittall, E. 1957. A history of Wiltshire, 1.1, The Victoria history of the counties of England, 36, 74, 262, 266.