Home / England / Surrey / Hillbury
Hillbury
Surrey, England ยท Atlas EN2571
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2571 (2571)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Surrey
- Historic county
- Surrey
- Parish, community, or townland
- Puttenham
- National Grid reference
- SU 91100 46850
- Latitude
- 51.21354
- Longitude
- -0.69711
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- animal bones and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1887); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1937-1961)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017797
- HER
- Surrey 1487
- National record
- record SU 94 NW 27; monument 250505
- Wikidata
- Q31117593
Sources
References
- Clark, A. and Nichols, J. 1960. Hillbury. Surrey Archaeol Collect, 57, 46-7.
- Hamilton, S. and Manley, J. 2001. Hillforts, monumentality and place: a chronological and topographical review of First millennium BC hillforts of South-East England. European J Archaeol, 4(1), 7-42.
- Lasham, F. 1895. Camps, earthworks, tumuli, etc. in West Surrey. Hillbury Camp, Puttenham. Surrey Archaeol Collect, 12, 148-9.
- Malden, H.E. (ed). 1912. The Victoria History of the County of Surrey. Vol 4, 387-8.