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Sandy Lodge Promontory Fort
Central Bedfordshire, England · Atlas EN3300
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3300 (3300)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Historic county
- Bedfordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Sandy
- National Grid reference
- TL 1872 4764
- Latitude
- 52.11436
- Longitude
- -0.26759
- Altitude
- 58 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop, inland promontory, and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland and heath
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1971); Other (1996); Excavation (1968-1969)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015006
- HER
- Central Bedfordshire and Luton 1164
- National record
- record TL 14 NE 19; monument 362679
- Wikidata
- Q31053026
Sources
References
- Dyer, J. 1971. Excavations at Sandy Lodge Bedfordshire. Bedfordshire Archaeol J. 9-15
- Simco, A. 1973. The Iron Age in Central Bedfordshire Bedfordshire Archaeol J. 16, 21