Location
- Atlas number
- EN3590 (3590)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ferndown Town
- National Grid reference
- SZ077979
- Latitude
- 50.78072
- Longitude
- -1.89214
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 3.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South); In-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Excavation (1921); Other (1999)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003583
- HER
- Dorset MDO6225
- National record
- record SZ 09 NE 44; monument 457812
- Wikidata
- Q17514836
Sources
- Atlas of Hillforts record
- Wikipedia
- Wikidata
- Historic England list entry
- Historic England research record
References
- Allcroft, H. 1908. Earthworks of England, 191.
- Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
- RCHME 1975. An inventory of the historical monuments in Dorset, Vol 5, East Dorset, 76-7, London: RCHME.
- Warne, C. 1872. Ancient Dorset. The Celtic, Roman, Saxon and Danish Antiquities of the County, Bournemouth: For the author, 53-5.