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Thetford Castle
Norfolk, England · Atlas EN2414
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2414 (2414)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Norfolk
- Historic county
- Norfolk
- Parish, community, or townland
- Thetford
- National Grid reference
- TL 8745 8275
- Latitude
- 52.41116
- Longitude
- 0.75359
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 7.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Finds
- pottery and human bones
- Investigations
- Excavation (1962); Geophysical Survey (1984); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1985-1986)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017670
- HER
- Norfolk 5747
- National record
- record TL 8 8 SE 123; monument 1010222
- Wikidata
- Q31113646
Sources
References
- Cushion, B. and Davison, A. 2003. Earthworks of Norfolk. E Anglian Archaeol Rep. No. 104, 180-2.
- Davies, J. and Gregory, T. 1992. Excavations at Thetford Castle, 1962 and 1985-6, in The Iron Age Forts of Norfolk. E Anglian Archaeol Rep. No. 54, 1-30.