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Nuns Walk, Malmesbury.
Wiltshire, England · Atlas EN0428
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0428 (428)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Malmesbury
- National Grid reference
- ST93528721
- Latitude
- 51.58369
- Longitude
- -2.09482
- Altitude
- 78 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 3 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, timber-framed wall, vitrification, other burning, and berm
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Geophysical Survey (1998)
Identifiers
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI5345
- Wikidata
- Q31116906
Sources
References
- Cotswold Archaeological Trust 2010. The Prehistoric and Medieval Defences of Malmesbury: Archaeological Investigations at Holloway. 2005-2006, Cotswold Archaeological Trust,
- Haslam, J. 1976. Wiltshire Towns: The Archaeological Potential.
- Longman, T. 2003. Excavations at the Town Wall, Malmesbury 1998-2000, Bristol & Region Archaeological Serv. 2003.
- Longman, T. 2006.The Prehistoric and Medieval Defences of Malmesbury: Archaeological Investigations at Holloway, 2005-2006, 104-64.
- Stratascan Geophysical & specialist Survey Service 1998. Nun's Walk, Malmesbury, Accession Register: 2005. Devizes Museum - DZSWS 205.109.