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Botany Hill
Surrey, England ยท Atlas EN2572
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2572 (2572)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Surrey
- Historic county
- Surrey
- Parish, community, or townland
- Farnham
- National Grid reference
- SU 8766 4636
- Latitude
- 51.20967
- Longitude
- -0.74647
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1961); Excavation (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1013869
- HER
- Surrey 1727
- National record
- record SU 84 NE 17; monument 247197
- Wikidata
- Q31117601
Sources
References
- Grinsell, L.V. 1934. An analysis and list of Surrey barrows.Surrey Archaeol Collect, 42, 54.
- 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.
- Hanworth, R. 1976. Seale, Crooksbury: Two dubious hillforts. Surrey Archael Bulletin, 123, January 1976.
- Lowther, A. 1939. Survey of the prehistory of the Farnham district, Surrey, Surrey Archaeological Society, 204.
- Reeves, P. 1993. Report on the evaluation excavation of earthworks on Botany Hill. CAS Code 491, in HER, Unpublished.