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Penbury Knoll
Dorset, England ยท Atlas EN3602
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3602 (3602)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Pentridge
- National Grid reference
- SU03951711
- Latitude
- 50.95324
- Longitude
- -1.94517
- Altitude
- 175 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887-1888)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002717
- HER
- Dorset MDO5940
- National record
- record SU 01 NW 55; monument 213562
- Wikidata
- Q31115971
Sources
References
- Barrett, J.C., Bradley, R. and Green, M. 1991. Landscape, monuments and society : the prehistory of Cranborne Chase, 229.
- Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
- RCHME 1975. An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol 5 : east Dorset, 56, London: RCHME.