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Warham Burrows
Norfolk, England · Atlas EN2418
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2418 (2418)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Norfolk
- Historic county
- Norfolk
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wareham
- National Grid reference
- TF 9455 4105
- Latitude
- 52.93122
- Longitude
- 0.89262
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and animal bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1783); Other (1953); Geophysical Survey (1959); Excavation (1959)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1018016
- HER
- Norfolk 1827
- National record
- record TF 9 4 SW 6; monument 359245
- Wikidata
- Q31113678
Sources
References
- Gregory, T. 1986. Warham Burrows, in Excavations at Thornham, Warham, Wighton and Caister, Norfolk, E Anglian Archaeol Rep. No. 30, 17-21.