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Whittlebury
Northamptonshire, England · Atlas EN0924
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0924 (924)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northamptonshire
- Historic county
- Buckinghamshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Whittlebury
- National Grid reference
- SP688442
- Latitude
- 52.09228
- Longitude
- -0.99645
- Altitude
- 152 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Finds
- pottery, human bones, animal bones, and environmental material
- Investigations
- Geophysical Survey (2003); Excavation (2001-2003)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northamptonshire 757 (second identifier MNN3683)
- Wikidata
- Q31113858
Sources
References
- Jones, R. 2004. An Iron Age hillfort at Whittlebury, Northants. Northamptonshire Archaeol. 132, 107-9.