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Poundbury
Dorset, England · Atlas EN3604
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3604 (3604)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dorchester
- National Grid reference
- SY68259112
- Latitude
- 50.71896
- Longitude
- -2.45163
- Altitude
- 94 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 5.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, timber-framed wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and spur
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and human bones
- Investigations
- Excavation (1880); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Geophysical Survey (1973); Excavation (1980); Other (1998); Other (2002); LiDAR Survey (2014); Other (2016); 1st Identified Written Reference (1501-1855); Excavation (1939-1940); Excavation (1966-197
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1013337
- HER
- Dorset MDO1057
- National record
- record SY 69 SE 63; monument 453395
- Wikidata
- Q31116001
Sources
References
- Bartlett, A. 1973. Geophysics: Poundbury, Dorchester , AML Rep No 1610.
- Davies, S. M. and Grieve, D. 1986. The Poundbury Pipeline: Archaeological Observations and Excavation, Proc Dorset Natur Hist Archaeol Soc, 108,
- Davies, S. M., Harding, P. and Soames, R. 1987. Recent excavations at the Grove Trading Estate, Dorchester 1987, Proc Dorset Natur Hist Archaeol Soc, 109,81-88.
- Ellis, C. 1998. Poundbury Development Phase II, Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset: archaeological desk-based assessment, Wessex Archaeology Report.
- Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
- Green, C. J. S. 1987. Excavations at Poundbury Vol I, The settlements, Dorset Natur Hist Archaeol Soc Monograph 7, 130-33.
- RCHME 1970. An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol 2, pt 2: south-east, No 172, 488, London: RCHME.
- Richardson, K. M. 1940. Excavations at Poundbury, Dorchester, Dorset, 1939, Antiq. J, 20, (4), 429-48.
- Tatler S., Bellamy P. and Montague, R. 2002. Units 1-3, Cooper's Cookers, Grove Trading Estate, Dorchester: archaeological observations and recording, Terrain Archaeology Report No 53089.01.
- Wheeler, R.E.M. 1943. Maiden Castle, Dorset, Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Rept 12, Oxford.