Location
- Atlas number
- EN3135 (3135)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Suffolk
- Historic county
- Suffolk
- Parish, community, or townland
- Burgh
- National Grid reference
- TM 224 523
- Latitude
- 52.12476
- Longitude
- 1.24687
- Altitude
- 38 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland, arable, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, human bones, animal bones, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1819); 1st Identified Written Reference (1895); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1928); Excavation (1975); Excavation (1900-1901); Excavation (1947-1957)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006035
- HER
- Suffolk BUG002
- National record
- record TM 2 5 SW 1; monument 390212
- Wikidata
- Q31119773
Sources
References
- Martin, E. 1988. Burgh: the Iron Age and Roman enclosure. East Anglian Archaeology, 40.
- Page, W. (ed). 1911. The Victoria history of the county of Suffolk, Volume 1, 586-7, 591.