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Pilsdon Pen
Dorset, England · Atlas EN3603
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3603 (3603)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Pilsdon
- National Grid reference
- ST41270127
- Latitude
- 50.80827
- Longitude
- -2.83517
- Altitude
- 277 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 3.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (South east); Oblique (South west); Other Forms (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, roundhouses, rectangular structures, and roads or tracks
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (1966); Excavation (1982); Earthwork Survey (1995); Geophysical Survey (1999); Excavation (1964-1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1019394
- HER
- Dorset MDO2018
- National record
- record ST 40 SW 9; monument 193083
- Wikidata
- Q31115988
Sources
References
- Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
- Gelling, P. 1977. Excavations at Pilsdon Pen, Dorset, 1964-71, Proc Prehist Soc, 43, 263-86.
- Papworth M. 2000. PILSDON PEN CAMP, PILSDON, DORSET. RESISTIVITY SURVEY REPORT. Unpublished.
- Pearce, R. 1983. Mesolithic Artefacts from West Dorset, Proc Dorset Natur Hist Archaeol Soc, 105, 139.
- RCHME 1952. An inventory of the historical monuments in Dorset, Vol 1, West Dorset, 179-80, London: RCHM.
- Thackray, D.W.R. 1982. Excavations at Pilsdon Pen Hillfort, 1982, Proc Dorset Natur Hist Archaeol Soc, 104, 178-179