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Thorpe End, Raunds

Northamptonshire, England · Atlas EN0777

Location

Atlas number
EN0777 (777)
Country
England
Current county or unitary authority
Northamptonshire
Historic county
Northamptonshire
Parish, community, or townland
Raunds
National Grid reference
SP 9978 7222
Latitude
52.34474
Longitude
-0.54207
Altitude
65 m

Form and condition

Type
hillslope fort
Condition
Cropmark
Morphology
univallate
Complete rampart circuit
Yes
Number of ramparts
1
Number of ditches
1
Enclosed area
1.8 ha
Also recorded
ditches

Landscape

Topographic position
hillslope
Aspect
north
Land use
arable

Dating

Dating
400 BC–AD 50
Dating evidence
Artefactual
Dating reliability
B - Medium

Interior and investigation

Interior excavation
pits, postholes, and roundhouses
Finds
pottery
Investigations
Other (1986); Geophysical Survey (1986); Excavation (1987-1988)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
1013134
HER
Northamptonshire 5798 (second identifier MNN2148)
National record
record SP 9 7 SE 4; monument 347397
Wikidata
Q31113937

Sources

References

  1. Parry, S. and Blinkhorn, P. 2006. Raunds Area Survey: an archaeological study of the landscape of Raunds, Northamptonshire, 1985-1994. Oxford: Oxbow Books.