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Fox Wood Earthworks
Nottinghamshire, England ยท Atlas EN2997
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2997 (2997)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Nottinghamshire
- Historic county
- Nottinghamshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Woodborough
- National Grid reference
- SK 61320 48404
- Latitude
- 53.02940
- Longitude
- -1.08712
- Altitude
- 115 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Footprint
- 0.49 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1907); Other (1975); Other (2007); Excavation (1940-1949); LiDAR Survey (2012); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006398
- HER
- Nottinghamshire 1752
- National record
- record SK 64 NW 10; monument 320019
- Wikidata
- Q31112881
Sources
References
- Chalkley Gould, I. 1907. Some Nottinghamshire Strongholds. J of the British Archaeol Ass, Second series, 13, 1907, 51-64. http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/misc/nottsstrongholds1.htm. Accessed Jun 2015
- Hamilton, L. 2007. Archaeological Excavation Report: Foxwood, Nottinghamshire. Pre-Construct Archaeology report (PCA-05-184). Unpublished
- 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.
- Oswald, A. 1939. Some Unrecorded Earthworks in Nottinghamshire. Trans Thoroton Soc Nottinghamshire. XLIII. 15
- Simmons, B.B. 1963. Iron Age Hill Forts in Nottinghamshire. Trans Thoroton Soc Nottinghamshire. LXVII. 17-18