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Tattershall Thorpe
Lincolnshire, England · Atlas EN2851
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2851 (2851)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Lincolnshire
- Historic county
- Lincolnshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tattershall Thorpe
- National Grid reference
- TF 22328 59808
- Latitude
- 53.12140
- Longitude
- -0.17347
- Altitude
- 13 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Cropmark and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 5 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, animal bones, and environmental material
- Investigations
- Other (1976); Other (1981); Excavation (1979-1980)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1018353
- HER
- Lincolnshire 43556
- National record
- record TF 25 NW 17; monument 352675
- Wikidata
- Q31112820
Sources
References
- Chowne, P, Girling, M, Greig, J. 1986. Excavations At An Iron Age Defended Enclosure At Tattershall Thorpe, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, Vol. 52. 159-88
- Seager Smith,R. 1998. Further Excavations at the Iron Age Enclosure at Tattershall Thorpe, Lincolnshire, by Peter Chowne, 1986. Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 33.