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Galley Hill
Central Bedfordshire, England · Atlas EN3298
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3298 (3298)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Historic county
- Bedfordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Sandy
- National Grid reference
- TL 1849 4782
- Latitude
- 52.11601
- Longitude
- -0.27090
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and heath
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC and 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1884); Other (1962); Other (1969); Earthwork Survey (2005); Other (2006); Excavation (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015555
- HER
- Central Bedfordshire and Luton 445
- National record
- record TL 14 NE 7; monument 362659
- Wikidata
- Q31052975
Sources
References
- Archer, J. 2006. Galley Hill Hillfort, Sandy, Bedfordshire. Archaeological Field Evaluation. Albion Archaeology Document 2006/59.
- McOmish, D. 2005. Galley Hill, Sandy, Bedfordshire. English Heritage Survey Report. Archaeological Investigation
- Series 06/2005.
- Halsey, C. 2006. Galley Hill Hillfort, Sandy, Bedfordshire. Report on Geoarchaeological Borehole Survey. Museum of London Archaeology Service