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Beacon Hill, Burghclere
Hampshire, England · Atlas EN3791
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3791 (3791)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Burghclere
- National Grid reference
- SU457572
- Latitude
- 51.31256
- Longitude
- -1.34459
- Altitude
- 262 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 3.84 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hornwork (South east); In-turned (South east); Passage-way/Corridor (South east); Blocked (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms, other roundhouse evidence, and pits
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1873); Excavation (1912); Other (1971); Other (1991); Geophysical Survey (1997); Other (1997); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Other (1978-1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008037
- HER
- Hampshire 21430
- National record
- record SU 45 NE 38; monument 232559
- Wikidata
- Q31117026
Sources
References
- Eagles, B.N, 1991. A New Survey of the Hillfort on Beacon Hill, Arch J, 148, 98-103.
- Payne, A., Corney, M. and Cunliffe, B.W. 2006, Wessex Hillforts Project - extensive survey of hillfort interiors in central southern England. London: English Heritage, 47-54.
- Woolley, L. 1913. Excavations on Beacon Hill, Hampshire, Man,13, 8-10.