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Holkham
Norfolk, England · Atlas EN2416
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2416 (2416)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Norfolk
- Historic county
- Norfolk
- Parish, community, or townland
- Holkham
- National Grid reference
- TF 874 447
- Latitude
- 52.96714
- Longitude
- 0.78956
- Altitude
- 5 m
Form and condition
- Type
- marsh fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 2.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Outworks (South); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1698); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1826); Earthwork Survey (1976)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1018014
- HER
- Norfolk 1776
- National record
- record TF 8 4 SE 1; monument 358409
- Wikidata
- Q29160556
Sources
References
- Rickett, R. 1991. The other forts of Norfolk, in The Iron Age forts of Norfolk, E Anglian Archaeol Rep. No. 54, 64-5.