Location
- Atlas number
- EN0773 (773)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northamptonshire
- Historic county
- Northamptonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Daventry
- National Grid reference
- SP 588 626
- Latitude
- 52.25925
- Longitude
- -1.13881
- Altitude
- 195 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 52 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, arable, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC and 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1779); Other (1884); Earthwork Survey (1981); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Excavation (1983-1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1010696
- HER
- Northamptonshire 631/4 (second identifier MNN11486)
- National record
- record SP 5 6 SE 6; monument 339880
- Wikidata
- Q31113897
Sources
References
- Jackson, D. A. 1993-4. The Iron Age hillfort at Borough Hill, Daventry, Northants. Northamptonshire Archaeol. 25, 5-20.
- Jackson, D. A. 1996-7. Further evaluation at Borough Hill, Daventry, Northants. Northamptonshire Archaeol. 27, 143-64.
- RCHME, 1981. An inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northampton, Vol III, 63-6.