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Belsars Hill
Cambridgeshire, England ยท Atlas EN3031
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3031 (3031)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cambridgeshire
- Historic county
- Cambridgeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Willingham
- National Grid reference
- TL 4221 7029
- Latitude
- 52.31242
- Longitude
- 0.08578
- Altitude
- 5 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort and marsh fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2.57 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1993); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1010368
- HER
- Cambridgeshire 01770a
- National record
- record TL 4 7 SW 24; monument 372192
- Wikidata
- Q31113833
Sources
References
- Fox, C. 1948. The archaeology of the Cambridge region : a topographical study of the bronze, early iron, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon ages with an introductory note on the neolithic age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 137.
- Kenney J. and Oswold A: 1995, Belsars Hill, Willingham, Cambridgeshire: A Survey by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. Proc Cambridge Antiq Soc, 84, 5-14.
- Salzman, L.F (ed). 1948. The Victoria County History of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. Volume 2, 45-6..