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Tasburgh
Norfolk, England · Atlas EN2420
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2420 (2420)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Norfolk
- Historic county
- Norfolk
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tasburgh
- National Grid reference
- TM 2004 9599
- Latitude
- 52.51741
- Longitude
- 1.24127
- Altitude
- 35 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 6.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery, metal, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1948); Geophysical Survey (1983); 1st Identified Written Reference (1601-1700); Excavation (1975-1980)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003984
- HER
- Norfolk 2258
- National record
- record TM 1 9 NE 3; monument 389338
- Wikidata
- Q31113692
Sources
References
- Rogerson, A. and Lawson, A. 1992. The earthwork enclosure at Tasburgh, The Iron Age Forts of Norfolk. E Anglian Archaeol Rep. No. 54, 31-58.