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Life Hill
Leicestershire, England ยท Atlas EN1002
Location
- Atlas number
- EN1002 (1002)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Leicestershire
- Historic county
- Leicestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Billesdon
- National Grid reference
- SK 7182 0448
- Latitude
- 52.63330
- Longitude
- -0.94023
- Altitude
- 198 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort and promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and hillslope
- Aspect
- south and level
- Land use
- arable and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1975-1978)
Identifiers
- HER
- Leicestershire and Rutland MLE1213
- National record
- record SK 7 0 SW 1; monument 321228
- Wikidata
- Q31113585
Sources
References
- Page, W. (ed) 1907. The Victoria history of the county of Leicester, Volume 1, 245-6.
- McWhirr, A. 1975. Archaeology in Leicestershire and Rutland 1975. Leicestershire Archaeol Hist Soc Trans, 50, 58.
- McWhirr, A. 1978. Archaeology in Leicestershire and Rutland 1978. Leicestershire Archaeol Hist Soc Trans, 53, 87.