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Barnham
Suffolk, England · Atlas EN3136
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3136 (3136)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Suffolk
- Historic county
- Norfolk
- Parish, community, or townland
- Barnham
- National Grid reference
- TL 8660 7775
- Latitude
- 52.36598
- Longitude
- 0.73934
- Altitude
- 52 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Finds
- pottery, human bones, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- Other (1976); Excavation (1978)
Identifiers
- HER
- Suffolk BNH009
- National record
- record TL 8 7 NE 29; monument 382706
- Wikidata
- Q31119761
Sources
References
- Martin E. 1993. Settlements on Hilltops: seven prehistoric sites in Suffolk'. East Anglian Archaeology 65, 1-22.