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Burton Lodge
Nottinghamshire, England ยท Atlas EN2995
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2995 (2995)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Nottinghamshire
- Historic county
- Nottinghamshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Burton Joyce
- National Grid reference
- SK 6338 4458
- Latitude
- 52.99481
- Longitude
- -1.05693
- Altitude
- 86 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Footprint
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1906); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1883-1885); Excavation (1950-1951)
Identifiers
- HER
- Nottinghamshire 1788
- National record
- record SK 64 SW 1; monument 320143
- Wikidata
- Q31112851
Sources
References
- Challis, A.J. and Harding, D.W., 1975. Later prehistory from the Trent to the Tyne. BAR British Series 1 (1974) 20 (ii) 47
- Hogg, A.H.A.1975. British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62. 156
- Keyworth, T. 2012. An Archaeological Synthesis and Landscape Investigation of Iron Age and Romano-British Central Nottinghamshire. MA dissertation, University of Leicester. https://www.academia.edu/7064496/MA_Dissertation_An_Archaeological_Synthesis_and_Landscape_Investigation_of_Iron_Age_and_Romano-British_Central_Nottinghamshire. Accessed Jun 2015
- Mein, A. G.1950. Excavations at Burton Lodge Farm, Burton Joyce, Notts: Preliminary Report. Peverel Archaeological Group Annual Report: 25-28.
- Mein, A.G. and Revill, S. 1951. The Progress of the Excavation at Burton Lodge, Peverel Archaeological Group Annual Report, 45-49.
- Simmons, B.B. 1963. Iron Age hill forts in Nottinghamshire. Trans Thoroton Soc Nottinghamshire, 67, 18-20
- Stevenson, W. 1906. Victoria County History Nottinghamshire Vol 1 (1906), 309