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Borough Hill
Derbyshire, England ยท Atlas EN2971
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2971 (2971)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Derbyshire
- Historic county
- Derbyshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Walton upon Trent
- National Grid reference
- SK 20919 17406
- Latitude
- 52.75384
- Longitude
- -1.69150
- Altitude
- 61 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hollow Way (East); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- human bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1895); Other (1962); Other (1966); Earthwork Survey (1985); Other (1998); Other (2001); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017742
- HER
- Derbyshire 27506
- National record
- record SK 21 NW 4; monument 921465
- Wikidata
- Q31113022
Sources
References
- Bulmer, T. and Co., 1895. History, Topography and Directory of Derbyshire
- Guilbert, G, 2004, Borough Hill, Walton-upon-Trent - if not a hillfort, then what? Derbyshire Archaeol J. 124, 242-257.
- Trebliug, E. & Garton, D. 2001. Borough Hill, Walton on Trent. Trent and Peak Archaeological Unit. Unpublished