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Harborough Banks
Warwickshire, England ยท Atlas EN3151
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3151 (3151)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Warwickshire
- Historic county
- Warwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lapworth
- National Grid reference
- SP 18453 71033
- Latitude
- 52.33704
- Longitude
- -1.73060
- Altitude
- 118 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 10.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- valley bottom and hillslope
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- woodland, commercial forestry, parkland, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1894); Other (1968); Other (1976); Other (2000); Other (2001); Other (2012); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- HER
- Warwickshire 1694; 13179
- National record
- record SP 17 SE 10; monument 331481
- Wikidata
- Q31119801
Sources
References
- Cracknell, S. and Hingley, R. 1995. Hobditch linear earthworks: survey and excavation 1987. Trans Birm Warwicks Archaeol Soc 99, 47-56.
- Doubleday, H. A. and Page, W. (eds) 1904. Victoria County History, Warwickshire, Vol 1. 384-6.
- Hannett, J. 1894. The Forest of Arden: Its towns, villages and hamlets. Birmingham Charles Lowe.
- Hingley, R. 1988. Lapworth, possible Iron Age valley fort at Harborough Banks. West Midlands Archaeol, 31, 37-9.
- Kipling, R. 2012. An Archaeological Evaluation At Mill Lane/Old Warwick Road, Lapworth, Warwickshire
- Palmer, S.C. 2000. Archaeological Observation Adjacent to Bridge Cottage, Old Warwick Road, Lapworth, Warwickshire (Report 0015) Post-determination/Research. Warwickshire Museum Field Services
- Thomas, N. 1974. An archaeological gazetteer for Warwickshire: Neolithic to Iron Age. Trans Birm Warwicks Archaeol Soc, 86, 16-48.
- Williams, J. 2001. Harborough Banks, Lapworth, Warwickshire: archaeological watching brief/Report No 01015. Cotswold Archaeological Trust [archaeological evaluation reports]. Unpublished