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Borough Hill
Cambridgeshire, England · Atlas EN3021
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3021 (3021)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cambridgeshire
- Historic county
- Essex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Sawston
- National Grid reference
- TL 4718 4947
- Latitude
- 52.12406
- Longitude
- 0.14857
- Altitude
- 20 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, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Other Forms (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Finds
- pottery, human bones, animal bones, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- Geophysical Survey (1992); Earthwork Survey (1993); Geophysical Survey (2000); Excavation (2001)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1009396
- HER
- Cambridgeshire 9742
- National record
- record TL 4 4 NE 76; monument 1030517
- Wikidata
- Q31113800
Sources
References
- GSB Prospection. 2000. Geophysical survey at Borough Hill, Sawston. Geophysical Surveys of Bradford Report 2000/108, unpublished.
- John Samuels Archaeological Consultants. 2003. An Archaeological Evaluation Excavation at Borough Hill, Sawston, Cambridgeshire. JSAC Reference 685/03/09, unpublished.
- Mortimer, R.. 2001. The Hillfort at Borough Hill, Sawston, Cambridgeshire: An Archaeological Watching Brief. Assessment Report. Cambridge Archaeological Unit Report 450, unpublished.
- Taylor, C.C., Topping, P., and Oswald, A.. 1994. A Prehistoric Enclosure at Sawston, Cambridgeshire. A Survey by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. Proc Cambridge Antiq Soc, 82: 5-9.