Location
- Atlas number
- EN0775 (775)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northamptonshire
- Historic county
- Northamptonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Northampton
- National Grid reference
- SP 7383 5835
- Latitude
- 52.21843
- Longitude
- -0.92071
- Altitude
- 109 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, timber-framed wall, other burning, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
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, metal, metalworking, and human bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1885); Earthwork Survey (1985); Geophysical Survey (2004); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1952-1988)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1012150
- HER
- Northamptonshire 1677 (second identifier MNN4248)
- National record
- record SP 7 5 NW 5
- Wikidata
- Q31113918
Sources
References
- Fell, C. I. 1936. The Hunsbury hillfort, Northants: a new survey of the material. Archaeol J, 93, 57-100.
- Jackson, D. A. 1993-4. Excavation of the hillfort defences at Hunsbury, Northampton, in 1952 and 1988. Northamptonshire Archaeol. 25, 5-20.
- RCHME, 1985. An inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northampton, Vol V, 277-83.
- Tingle, M. and Jackson, D. 2004, Hunsbury Hillfort. Online at http://www.jwaller.co.uk/nas/Hunsbury_Hillfort.htm