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Thornbury
Oxfordshire, England ยท Atlas EN2293
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2293 (2293)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Oxfordshire
- Historic county
- Berkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Oxford
- National Grid reference
- SP 486080
- Latitude
- 51.76853
- Longitude
- -1.29682
- Altitude
- 190 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 3.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall and other burning
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1792); Geophysical Survey (2008); 1st Identified Written Reference (1101-1200); Excavation (1987-1988)
Identifiers
- HER
- Oxfordshire 6768
- Wikidata
- Q31116574
Sources
References
- Blair, J. 2014. Part Two - Thornbury, Binsey: a probable defensive enclosure associated with Saint Frideswide. In Carr, L., Dewhurst, R. and Henig, M. (eds) Binsey: Oxford's Holy Place. It's saint, village and people. Oxford: Archaeopress, 56-74. (Originally published in Oxoniensia 53 (1988), 3-20 but with an addendum)