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Egg Rings, Salcey Forest
Northamptonshire, England · Atlas EN0784
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0784 (784)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northamptonshire
- Historic county
- Northamptonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hartwell
- National Grid reference
- SP 8020 5020
- Latitude
- 52.14424
- Longitude
- -0.82941
- Altitude
- 127 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.18 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); In-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1849); Earthwork Survey (1978-1979)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northamptonshire 5414 (second identifier MNN2018)
- Wikidata
- Q31113851
Sources
References
- Woodfield, C.1980. The Egg Rings: a defended enclosure in Salcey Forest. Northamptonshire Archaeol. 15, 156-8.