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Maiden Bower
Central Bedfordshire, England · Atlas EN3296
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3296 (3296)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Historic county
- Bedfordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Houghton Regis
- National Grid reference
- SP 9966 2247
- Latitude
- 51.89184
- Longitude
- -0.55319
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 4.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and timber-framed wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Finds
- pottery, metal, human bones, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1695); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1880); Excavation (1913); Other (1929); Other (1971); Other (1974); Geophysical Survey (1991); Other (1991); Earthwork Survey (2003); Excavation (2003); Earthwork Survey (1878); Excava
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015593
- HER
- Central Bedfordshire and Luton 666
- National record
- record SP 92 SE 6; monument 346554
- Wikidata
- Q31052945
Sources
References
- Barber, M. and Topping, P. 1994. Maiden Bower, Bedfordshire. Neolithic Industry and Enclosure. RCHME.
- Camden, W. 1695. Britannia. Facsimiie of the 1695 edition, published by Gibson 1971
- Curwen, E. C. 1930. Neolithic Camps. Antiquity IV, 22-54
- Davies, G.H. 1956. Maiden Bower near Dunstable, Bedfordshire Archaeologist. 1, 98-101
- Dyer, J. 1955. Maiden Bower, near Dunstable. Bedfordshire Archaeol J. 1(1) 46-52
- Hamilton, M.A. and Pollard, C.J. 1992. Maiden Bower, Bedfordshire: interim report on survey work, October 1991. Manshead J. 32, 24-31
- Piggott, S. 1931. The Neolithic pottery of the British Isles. Antiq J. 88, 67-159
- Pollard, J. and Hamilton, M. 1994. Recent fieldwork at Maiden Bower. Bedfordshire Arch. Vol. 21, 10-18
- Simco, A. 1984. Survey of Bedfordshire: The Roman Period. Bedfordshire County Council & RCHME
- Smith, W.G. 1915. Maiden Bower, Bedfordshire. Proc Soc Antiq XXVII, 143-61
- Smith, W.G. 1894. Man the Primal Savage: his haunts and relics from the hill-tops of Bedfordshire to Blackwall London. London, Edward Stanford.
- Matthews, C. L. 1976. Occupation Sites on the Chiltern Ridge. BAR 29, Oxford. British Archaeological Reports