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Arberry Hill

Northamptonshire, England · Atlas EN0877

Location

Atlas number
EN0877 (877)
Country
England
Current county or unitary authority
Northamptonshire
Historic county
Northamptonshire
Parish, community, or townland
Thenford
National Grid reference
SP 521 440
Latitude
52.09231
Longitude
-1.24007
Altitude
183 m

Form and condition

Type
hillslope fort
Condition
Extant and Likely destroyed
Complete rampart circuit
No
Enclosed area
1.7 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank

Landscape

Topographic position
hillslope
Aspect
south
Land use
woodland and arable

Dating

Dating
800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
Dating evidence
Artefactual
Dating reliability
C - Low

Interior and investigation

Finds
pottery
Investigations
1st Identified Written Reference (1841); Earthwork Survey (1982); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)

Identifiers

HER
Northamptonshire 299/0/1 (second identifier MNN18329)
National record
record SP 5 4 SW 6; monument 339424
Wikidata
Q31113853

Sources

References

  1. Beesley, A. 1841. A history of Banbury, 31.
  2. RCHME, 1982. An inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northampton, Vol IV, 143-4.