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Copy's Green

Norfolk, England · Atlas EN2442

Location

Atlas number
EN2442 (2442)
Country
England
Current county or unitary authority
Norfolk
Historic county
Norfolk
Parish, community, or townland
Wighton
National Grid reference
TF 9548 3921
Latitude
52.91472
Longitude
0.90550
Altitude
16.7 m

Form and condition

Type
partial contour fort
Condition
Cropmark
Morphology
univallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
1
Number of ditches
1
Possible original entrances
1
Breaks through the ramparts
1
Enclosed area
0.25 ha
Also recorded
ditches
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (East)

Landscape

Topographic position
hilltop
Aspect
level
Land use
arable

Dating

Dating
400 BC–AD 50
Dating evidence
Artefactual
Dating reliability
C - Low

Interior and investigation

Finds
pottery, metal, and animal bones
Investigations
Other (1953); Other (1987); Excavation (1957-1958)

Identifiers

HER
Norfolk 2072
National record
record TF 9 3 NE 1; monument 359005
Wikidata
Q31113618

Sources

References

  1. Gregory, T. 1986. An enclosure at Wighton, in Excavations at Thornham, Warham, Wighton and Caister, Norfolk, E Anglian Archaeol Rep. No. 30, 27-31.