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Nettlecombe Tout
Dorset, England ยท Atlas EN3600
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3600 (3600)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Melcombe Horsey
- National Grid reference
- ST73600320
- Latitude
- 50.82819
- Longitude
- -2.37596
- Altitude
- 251 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west); Outworks (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); LiDAR Survey (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002818
- HER
- Dorset MDO1688
- National record
- record ST 70 SW 9; monument 201967
- Wikidata
- Q31115961
Sources
References
- Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
- RCHME 1970. An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol 3, pt 2, Central Dorset, 173, London: RCHME.