Location
- Atlas number
- EN3579 (3579)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Abbotsbury
- National Grid reference
- SY55588657
- Latitude
- 50.67694
- Longitude
- -2.62991
- Altitude
- 213 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 4, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East); Passage-way/Corridor (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and spur
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1966); Other (2016); Excavation (1974-1975)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002710
- HER
- Dorset MDO24197
- National record
- record SY 58 NE 36; monument 450349
- Wikidata
- Q3662453
Sources
- Atlas of Hillforts record
- Wikipedia
- Wikidata
- Historic England list entry
- Historic England research record
References
- Beavis, J. 1974. Excavations at Abbotsbury Castle, Proc Dorset Natur Hist Archaeol Soc, 96, 56.
- Beavis, J. 1976. Interim note on excavations at Abbotsbury Castle hillfort, Proc Dorset Natur Hist Archaeol Soc, 97, 51.
- Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
- RCHME 1952. An inventory of the historical monuments in Dorset, Vol 1, West Dorset, 10, No 31, London: RCHM.