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Burgh Banks
Lincolnshire, England ยท Atlas EN2857
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2857 (2857)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Lincolnshire
- Historic county
- Lincolnshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Old Somerby
- National Grid reference
- SK 9559 3305
- Latitude
- 52.88640
- Longitude
- -0.58078
- Altitude
- 114 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 3.3 ha
- Footprint
- 3.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- valley bottom
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1986); Other (1996)
Identifiers
- HER
- Lincolnshire 34015
- National record
- record SK 93 SE 42; monument 1042648
- Wikidata
- Q31112803
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. 184 and Figure 11.
- May, J. 1993. The later Iron Age, in An Historical Atlas of Lincolnshire. Bennett, S. & Bennett, N (eds), 13.