Home / England / Dorset / Sturminster Newton Castle
Sturminster Newton Castle
Dorset, England ยท Atlas EN3608
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3608 (3608)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Sturminster Newton
- National Grid reference
- ST78411348
- Latitude
- 50.92018
- Longitude
- -2.30820
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Other (2007); LiDAR Survey (2015)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1324461
- HER
- Dorset MDO4852
- National record
- record ST 71 SE; monument 1527636
- Wikidata
- Q31116028
Sources
References
- Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
- RCHME 1970. An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol 3, pt 2,282-83, Central Dorset, 179-81, London: RCHME.