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Ladle Hill
Hampshire, England ยท Atlas EN3793
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3793 (3793)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Basingstoke and Deane
- National Grid reference
- SU47885684
- Latitude
- 51.30862
- Longitude
- -1.31449
- Altitude
- 234 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
- 2.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches and gang working
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1873); Other (1971); Geophysical Survey (1997); Other (1967-1982)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1012038
- HER
- Hampshire 21450
- National record
- record SU 45 NE 15; monument 232435
- Wikidata
- Q31117030
Sources
References
- Payne, A, Corney, M. and Cunliffe, B. 2006. The Wessex hillforts project, Extensive survey of hillfort interiors in central southern England. London: English Heritage, 62-65.
- Piggott, S. 1931. Ladle Hill-an unfinished hillfort, Antiq, 5, 1931, 474-85.
- Williams-Freeman, J.P. 1915. An introduction to field archaeology as illustrated by Hampshire, London: Macmillan and Co Ltd, 380.