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Woolsbarrow
Dorset, England ยท Atlas EN3611
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3611 (3611)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bloxworth
- National Grid reference
- SY89319254
- Latitude
- 50.73242
- Longitude
- -2.15285
- Altitude
- 67 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.63 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Excavation (1801-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1018437
- HER
- Dorset MDO7215
- National record
- record SY 89 SE 11; monument 456149
- Wikidata
- Q31116037
Sources
References
- Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
- RCHME 1970. An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol 3, Central Dorset, 487, London: RCHME.
- Warne, C. 1872. Ancient Dorset. The Celtic, Roman, Saxon and Danish Antiquities of the County, Bournemouth: For the author, 88.