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The Castle, Leigh
Dorset, England ยท Atlas EN3685
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3685 (3685)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Leigh
- National Grid reference
- ST 6300 0780
- Latitude
- 50.86789
- Longitude
- -2.52669
- Altitude
- 112 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
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 3.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (North east); In-turned (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888-1889)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dorset MDO1341
- National record
- record ST 60 NW 4; monument 198817
- Wikidata
- Q31115910
Sources
References
- Barker, K. and Seaward, D.R. 1990. Boundaries and landscape in Blackmoor: the Tudor manors of Holnest, Proc Dorset Natur Hist Archaeol Soc, 112, 5-22.
- RCHME 1952. An inventory of the historical monuments in Dorset, Vol 1, West Dorset, London: RCHM.