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Taplow
Buckinghamshire, England · Atlas EN3526
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3526 (3526)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Historic county
- Buckinghamshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Taplow
- National Grid reference
- SU 9066 8237
- Latitude
- 51.53292
- Longitude
- -0.69425
- Altitude
- 67 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, timber-laced wall, other burning, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hornwork (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- south and west
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC and 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual, C14, and Other
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, animal bones, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1908); Geophysical Survey (2005); Excavation (1998-2000)
Identifiers
- HER
- Buckinghamshire 632100000
- National record
- record SU 98 SW 153; monument 1314186
- Wikidata
- Q31117370
Sources
References
- Allen, T, and Lamdin-Whymark, H. 2001. The Taplow Hillfort. Current Archaeol. 175. 286-289
- Allen, T., Hayden, C. and Lamdin-Whymark, H. 2009. From Bronze Age Enclosure to Anglo-Saxon Settlement: Archaeological Excavations at Taplow Hillfort 1999-2005. Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph
- Horn, J. Forthcoming. The dating of hillforts in Britain and Ireland. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
- Maricevic, D. and Lamdin-Whymark, H. 2005. Taplow Court (Phase 2), Taplow, Buckinghamshire. Archaeological Evaluation Report. Oxford Archaeology. https://library.thehumanjourney.net/460/1/TAPC05.pdfA.pdf. Accessed October 2015.
- Marlow Archaeological Society, 2005. Taplow Court: Fieldwork Record Drawings - Survey & Resistivity October 2005. Unpublished.
- Page, W. (ed) 1908. The Victoria Hstory of the County of Buckingham