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Mistleberry
Dorset, England ยท Atlas EN3599
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3599 (3599)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Sixpenny Handley
- Also recorded in
- Wiltshire
- National Grid reference
- ST99501940
- Latitude
- 50.97467
- Longitude
- -2.00743
- Altitude
- 152 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (956); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002455
- HER
- Dorset MDO6069
- National record
- record ST 91 SE 14; monument 209757
- Wikidata
- Q31115953
Sources
References
- Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
- Grundy, G.B. 1936. Saxon Charters of Dorset (continued), Proc Dorset Natur Hist Archaeol Soc, 58,103-136 (118).
- RCHME 1975. An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol 5 : east Dorset, 70, London: RCHME.