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Chalbury
Dorset, England · Atlas EN3587
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3587 (3587)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bincombe
- National Grid reference
- SY69408380
- Latitude
- 50.65341
- Longitude
- -2.43336
- Altitude
- 116 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 3.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Oblique (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and quarry hollows
- Finds
- pottery, metal, human bones, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1882); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Excavation (1939); Other (1966); Other (1994); LiDAR Survey (2015); Other (2016); Excavation (1801-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 102711
- HER
- Dorset MDO309
- National record
- record SY 68 SE 32; monument 452691
- Wikidata
- Q31115876
Sources
References
- Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
- RCHME 1970. An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol 3, Central Dorset, 486-87, London: RCHME.
- Whiteley, M .1943. Excavations at Chalbury Camp, Dorset 1939, Arch J, 23, 98-121.