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Lambert's Castle
Dorset, England ยท Atlas EN3596
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3596 (3596)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hawkchurch
- National Grid reference
- SY37159905
- Latitude
- 50.78777
- Longitude
- -2.89260
- Altitude
- 257.4 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
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 4.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, timber-framed wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South); Hollow Way (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Excavation (1990); Other (1992-1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017035
- HER
- Dorset MDO1636
- National record
- record SY 39 NE 2; monument 449717
- Wikidata
- Q31115928
Sources
References
- Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
- Lester, M.J. 1990. Lambert's Castle, Marshwood, West Dorset, Proc Dorset Natur Hist Archaeol Soc, 112, 115.