Location
- Atlas number
- EN3605 (3605)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hilton
- National Grid reference
- ST76800580
- Latitude
- 50.85130
- Longitude
- -2.33170
- Altitude
- 274 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Outworks (East); Barbican (East); Out-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (1966); Other (2016)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003207
- HER
- Dorset MDO4766
- National record
- record ST 70 NE 12; monument 201750
- Wikidata
- Q31116007
Sources
References
- Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
- Hutchins, Rev. J. 1868. The history and antiquities of the County of Dorset, 4, 3rd Edn, Westminster, 356-57.
- RCHME 1970. An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol 3, Central Dorset, 258-59, London: RCHME.
- Warne, C. 1872. Ancient Dorset. The Celtic, Roman, Saxon and Danish Antiquities of the County, Bournemouth: For the author, 94-5.