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Mowsbury Hill
Central Bedfordshire, England · Atlas EN3299
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3299 (3299)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Historic county
- Bedfordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ravensden
- National Grid reference
- TL 06610 53189
- Latitude
- 52.16664
- Longitude
- -0.44266
- Altitude
- 64 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 4.55 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, timber-framed wall, and other burning
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and human bones
- Investigations
- Other (1965); 1st Identified Written Reference (1971); Excavation (1971); Geophysical Survey (1972); Earthwork Survey (1985)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015588
- HER
- Bedford Borough 332
- National record
- record TL 05 SE 1; monument 360543
- Wikidata
- Q31053003
Sources
References
- Clark, A. J. 1972. Mowsbury. Geophysical Survey results
- Dring, G.J. 1971. Iron Age pottery from Mowsbury Camp, Ravensden, near Bedford. Bedfordshire Archaeol J . 6 68-9
- Kennett, D. 1972. Bedfordshire Archaeology, 1971-72. Bedfordshire Archaeol J. 7, 95
- Simco, A. and Coleman, S. 1986. Mowsbury Hill, Ravensdon, Bedfordshire. CBA South Midlands 16, 20-21