Location
- Atlas number
- EN0774 (774)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northamptonshire
- Historic county
- Northamptonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Daventry
- National Grid reference
- SP 589 632
- Latitude
- 52.26430
- Longitude
- -1.13820
- Altitude
- 195 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South); In-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and arable
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1779); Other (1884); Earthwork Survey (1981); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1010696
- HER
- Northamptonshire 631/4 (second identifier MNN11486)
- National record
- record SP 5 6 SE 6; monument 339880
- Wikidata
- Q31113907
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.