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Sharpenhoe Clappers
Central Bedfordshire, England · Atlas EN3315
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3315 (3315)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Historic county
- Bedfordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Streatley
- National Grid reference
- TL 0665 3020
- Latitude
- 51.96002
- Longitude
- -0.44925
- Altitude
- 140 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
- 3.75 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Other (1973); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1977); Excavation (1979); Geophysical Survey (1980); Other (1982)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1009400
- HER
- Central Bedfordshire and Luton 238
- National record
- record TL 03 SE 2; monument 360055
- Wikidata
- Q31053052
Sources
References
- Bartlett, A. and David, A. 1980. Geophysics G 2/80, Sharpenhoe. AML Rep No 3252. DOE AM Lab report
- Dix, B. 1983. An excavation at Sharpenhoe Clapper, Streatley, Bedfordshire. Bedfordshire Archaeol J. Vol. 16, 65-74