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Brill
Buckinghamshire, England · Atlas EN3558
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3558 (3558)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Historic county
- Buckinghamshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Brill
- National Grid reference
- SP 6564 1388
- Latitude
- 51.81967
- Longitude
- -1.04896
- Altitude
- 189 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1847); Other (1987); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1979-1980); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006925
- HER
- Buckinghamshire 10601000
- National record
- record SP 61 SE 11; monument 340949
- Wikidata
- Q31117505
Sources
References
- Farley, M. 1989. An Iron Age Hillfort at Brill? Rec Buckinghamshire. 31, 27-32 and Pl III-IV
- Gilbert, D. 2005. An Archaeological Excavation at Brill Sports and Social Club, Church Street, Brill, Buckinghamshire. John Moore Heritage Services. 2005.
- Lipscomb, G. 1847. The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckinghamshire 1640-1660. London, J. & W. Robins
- Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England) 1912. An inventory of the historical monuments in Buckinghamshire, I (south), 67