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Crow Hill
Northamptonshire, England · Atlas EN0776
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0776 (776)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northamptonshire
- Historic county
- Northamptonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Irthlingborough
- National Grid reference
- SP 9550 7154
- Latitude
- 52.33325
- Longitude
- -0.59558
- Altitude
- 62 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- timber-framed wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South west); Outworks (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Other (1972); Excavation (1985-1994); Geophysical Survey (1985-1994); Other (1985-1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1013267
- HER
- Northamptonshire 1780/0/0 (second identifier MNN4311)
- National record
- record SP 9 7 SE 36; monument 347390
- Wikidata
- Q31113928
Sources
References
- Foard, G. and Parry, S. 1986. Crow Hill, Irthlingborough. Northamptonshire Archaeol. 21, 12.
- Parry, S. and Blinkhorn, P. 2006. Raunds Area Survey: an archaeological study of the landscape of Raunds, Northamptonshire, 1985-1994. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 61-65 and 139-51.