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Guilsborough
Northamptonshire, England · Atlas EN0783
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0783 (783)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northamptonshire
- Historic county
- Northamptonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Guilsborough
- National Grid reference
- SP 6746 7290
- Latitude
- 52.34999
- Longitude
- -1.01103
- Altitude
- 170 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Excavation (1989); Geophysical Survey (1992); Earthwork Survey (1993); 1st Identified Written Reference (1601-1700)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northamptonshire 1124 (second identifier MNN3919)
- National record
- record SP 6 7 SE 3; monument 341910
- Wikidata
- Q31113849
Sources
References
- Cadman, G. 1989. Guilsborough enclosure archaeological evaluation, July 1989. Northamptonshire Archaeological Unit, unpublished report.
- Pattison, P. and Oswald, A. 1993-4. An Iron Age hillfort at Guilsborough (SP 673728). Northamptonshire Archaeol. 25, 179.
- Payne, A. W. 1993 GUILSBOROUGH ENCLOSURE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE REPORT ON GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY, DECEMBER 1992, AM LAB REPORT 22/93.
- RCHME 1993. Guilsborough, Northamptonshire. An archaeological survey by the RCHME. Unpublished report.