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Weatherby Castle
Dorset, England ยท Atlas EN3609
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3609 (3609)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Milborne St Andrew
- National Grid reference
- SY80719624
- Latitude
- 50.76536
- Longitude
- -2.27491
- Altitude
- 102 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 7 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 2.2 ha, 7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (North west); Passage-way/Corridor (North west); Outworks (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- LiDAR Survey (2014); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888-1889)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1019360
- HER
- Dorset MDO4360
- National record
- record SY 89 NW 7; monument 455849
- Wikidata
- Q31116034
Sources
References
- Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
- RCHME 1970. An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol 3, No 18, pt 2, Central Dorset, 179-81, London: RCHME.
- Warne, C. 1872. Ancient Dorset. The Celtic, Roman, Saxon and Danish Antiquities of the County, Bournemouth: For the author, 159-61.