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The Prebendal
Buckinghamshire, England · Atlas EN3525
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3525 (3525)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Historic county
- Buckinghamshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Aylesbury
- National Grid reference
- SP 8159 1399
- Latitude
- 51.81859
- Longitude
- -0.81771
- Altitude
- 86 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 10 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- east and west
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, human bones, and animal bones
- Investigations
- Excavation (1973); Excavation (1985)
Identifiers
- HER
- Buckinghamshire 291800000
- National record
- record SP 81 SW 55; monument 870843
- Wikidata
- Q31117360
Sources
References
- Farley M. and Jones, G. 2012. Iron Age Ritual: a Hillfort and Evidence for a Minster at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Oxbow Books.
- Farley, M. 2013. Discovering Aylesbury's hillfort. Defensive ditches and ritual Iron Age burials. Current Archaeol, 278, 34-41.