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Beacon Hill
Leicestershire, England · Atlas EN0996
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0996 (996)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Leicestershire
- Historic county
- Leicestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Woodhouse
- National Grid reference
- SK 5112 1474
- Latitude
- 52.72833
- Longitude
- -1.24550
- Altitude
- 244 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
- 10.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC and 800–400 BC
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and metalworking
- Investigations
- Geophysical Survey (1998); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008835
- HER
- Leicestershire and Rutland MLE1132
- National record
- record SK 5 1 SW 1; monument 919965
- Wikidata
- Q31113599
Sources
References
- Liddle, P. 1983. A Guide to 20 Archaeological Sites in Leicestershire. Leicester: Leicester Museums Service, 42-3.
- Page, W. (ed) 1907. The Victoria history of the county of Leicester, Volume 1, 170, 250.
- Roberts P and Brooke C. 1998 BEACON HILL: A GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY. Leicestershire County Council, unpublished.