Location
- Atlas number
- EN3588 (3588)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Chilcombe
- National Grid reference
- SY53029195
- Latitude
- 50.72518
- Longitude
- -2.66711
- Altitude
- 190 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 7.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (East); Postern Gate (South); Passage-way/Corridor (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888-1889); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002777
- HER
- Dorset MDO907
- National record
- record SY 59 SW 14; monument 451361
- Wikidata
- Q31115882
Sources
References
- Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
- RCHME 1952. An inventory of the historical monuments in Dorset, Vol 1, West Dorset, 97, London: RCHM.
- Warne, C. 1872. Ancient Dorset. The Celtic, Roman, Saxon and Danish Antiquities of the County, Bournemouth: For the author, 148-49.