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Desborough Castle
Buckinghamshire, England ยท Atlas EN3452
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3452 (3452)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Historic county
- Buckinghamshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- High Wycombe
- National Grid reference
- SU 8469 9330
- Latitude
- 51.63231
- Longitude
- -0.77776
- Altitude
- 130 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort and hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant, Cropmark, and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- woodland and parkland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1876); 1st Identified Written Reference (1878); Other (1933); Other (1967); Excavation (1968); Excavation (1987); Other (1987)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1020863
- HER
- Buckinghamshire 1801000
- National record
- record SU 89 SW 2; monument 248824
- Wikidata
- Q31117503
Sources
References
- Allcroft, A. H. 1908. Earthwork of England. MacMillan: London
- Collard, M. 1988. Excavations at Desborough Castle, High Wycombe, 1987. Rec Buckinghamshire 18, 15-52
- Downs, R.S. 1878. Desborough Castle. Rec Buckinghamshire 5, 248-60
- Farley, M. 2009. How large was the Iron Age 'hillfort' at Desborough Castle, West Wycombe? Rec Buckinghamshire 49, 235-238
- Saunders, C. 1971. The pre-Belgic Iron Age in the central and western Chilterns. Arch J. 128, 1-30