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Dungeon Hill
Dorset, England · Atlas EN3591
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3591 (3591)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Buckland Newton
- National Grid reference
- ST68990741
- Latitude
- 50.86531
- Longitude
- -2.44197
- Altitude
- 185 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 3.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and human bones
- Investigations
- Excavation (1881); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (1767-1800)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016895
- HER
- Dorset MDO567
- National record
- record ST 60 NE 9; monument 198773
- Wikidata
- Q31115885
Sources
References
- Cunnington, E. 1901. Dungeon or Dunset Camp, Proc. Dorset Natur. Hist. Antiq. Fld. Clb, 21, 203-204.
- Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
- Hutchins, Rev. J. 1868. The history and antiquities of the County of Dorset, 3, 3rd Edn, Westminster, 708.
- RCHME 1952. An inventory of the historical monuments in Dorset, Vol 1, West Dorset, 169, London: RCHM.