Location
- Atlas number
- EN0779 (779)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northamptonshire
- Historic county
- Northamptonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Chipping Warden
- National Grid reference
- SP 493 485
- Latitude
- 52.13338
- Longitude
- -1.27973
- Altitude
- 134 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and 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
- 2.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1791); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003893
- HER
- Northamptonshire 15 (second identifier MNN214)
- National record
- record SP 4 4 NE 2; monument 337117
- Wikidata
- Q31113953
Sources
References
- Bridges, J. 1791. The history and antiquities of Northamptonshire.
- RCHME, 1982. An inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northampton, Vol IV, 27-29.