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Thrapston
Northamptonshire, England · Atlas EN0928
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0928 (928)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northamptonshire
- Historic county
- Northamptonshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Thrapston
- National Grid reference
- SP 99743 78406
- Latitude
- 52.39515
- Longitude
- -0.53634
- Altitude
- 55 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches and gang working
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Finds
- pottery, human bones, and animal bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1884); Excavation (1991); Excavation (1997)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northamptonshire 1881/1 (second identifier MNN7844)
- Wikidata
- Q31113868
Sources
References
- Jackson, D. 1996. An archaeological evaluation on land off Huntingdon Road, Thrapston, Northants. Unpublished report for Northamptonshire County Council.
- Hull, G. 2001. A late Bronze Age ringwork, pits and later features at Thrapston, Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire Archaeol, 29, 73_91.