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Shipton Hill
Dorset, England · Atlas EN3606
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3606 (3606)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Shipton Gorge
- National Grid reference
- SY50709210
- Latitude
- 50.72682
- Longitude
- -2.69907
- Altitude
- 170 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1954); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002779
- HER
- Dorset MDO2432
- National record
- record SY 59 SW; monument 451331
- Wikidata
- Q31116018
Sources
References
- Butcher, Mr and Mrs W. 1955. An early Iron Age fort on Shipton Hill, Shipton Gorge, Proc Dorset Natur Hist Archaeol Soc, 77, 135-136.
- Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
- RCHME 1952. An inventory of the historical monuments in Dorset, Vol 1, West Dorset, 223, London: RCHM.
- Warne, C. 1872. Ancient Dorset. The Celtic, Roman, Saxon and Danish Antiquities of the County, Bournemouth: For the author, 96-7.