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Chiselbury
Wiltshire, England · Atlas EN0429
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0429 (429)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Fovant
- National Grid reference
- SU01802812
- Latitude
- 51.05239
- Longitude
- -1.97559
- Altitude
- 201 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 8
- Enclosed area
- 4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches and gang working
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1773); Other (1887); Excavation (1923); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Excavation (1800-1810); Earthwork Survey (1983-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1020262
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI5751
- National record
- record SU 62 NW 2; monument 213964
- Wikidata
- Q31116918
Sources
References
- Pugh, R.B. and Crittall, E. 1957. A history of Wiltshire, 1.1, The Victoria history of the counties of England, 113.