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Pulpit Hill
Buckinghamshire, England · Atlas EN3443
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3443 (3443)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Historic county
- Buckinghamshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Great and Little Kimble cum Marsh
- National Grid reference
- SP 8316 0502
- Latitude
- 51.73774
- Longitude
- -0.79708
- Altitude
- 248 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and inland promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1924); Other (1972); Earthwork Survey (2000); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1013937
- HER
- Buckinghamshire 1700000 (second identifier 150064 (NT))
- National record
- record SP 80 NW 9; monument 344187
- Wikidata
- Q31117442
Sources
References
- Barker, L. 2001. Pulpit Hill, Great and Little Kimble: Iron Age Hillfort. English Heritage Archaeological Investigation Report Series AI/16/2001.
- Lipscomb, G 1847. The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham. II
- Matthews, C. L. and Wainwright, A. 1988. National Trust Archaeological Survey: Pulpit Wood. Unpublished