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Cheddington
Buckinghamshire, England · Atlas EN3527
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3527 (3527)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Historic county
- Buckinghamshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cheddington
- National Grid reference
- SP 9193 1660
- Latitude
- 51.84047
- Longitude
- -0.66700
- Altitude
- 140 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 5 ha
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- woodland, arable, and scrub or bracken
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 Written Reference (1983); Other (1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017517
- HER
- Buckinghamshire 154400000
- National record
- record SP 91 NW 40; monument 1160034
- Wikidata
- Q31117504
Sources
References
- Farley, M. 1983. Cheddington Hillfort. Recs Buckinghamshire. Vol. 25, 179