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Thornton Farm
Warwickshire, England ยท Atlas EN3152
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3152 (3152)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Warwickshire
- Historic county
- Warwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ettington
- National Grid reference
- SP 27768 50342
- Latitude
- 52.15063
- Longitude
- -1.59559
- Altitude
- 77 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and lowland
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, human bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1962); Other (1962); Earthwork Survey (1984); Other (2010-2013); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002990
- HER
- Warwickshire 1258
- National record
- record SP 25 SE 2; monument 333196
- Wikidata
- Q31119859
Sources
References
- Harding, A.F. and Lee, G.E. 1987. Henge monuments and related sites of Great Britain: air photographic evidence and catalogue. BAR British series 1 (1974), 175, 281-3.
- Thomas, N. 1974. An archaeological gazetteer for Warwickshire: Neolithic to Iron Age. Trans Birm Warwicks Archaeol Soc, 86, 16-48.