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Lewesdon
Dorset, England ยท Atlas EN3597
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3597 (3597)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Broadwindsor
- National Grid reference
- ST437012
- Latitude
- 50.80788
- Longitude
- -2.80028
- Altitude
- 259 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017034
- HER
- Dorset MDO532
- National record
- record ST 40 SW 12; monument 193092
- Wikidata
- Q31115939
Sources
References
- Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
- RCHME 1952. An inventory of the historical monuments in Dorset, Vol 1, West Dorset, 56, London: RCHM.