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The Frith
Hampshire, England ยท Atlas EN3794
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3794 (3794)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Mortimer West End
- National Grid reference
- SU62686308
- Latitude
- 51.36328
- Longitude
- -1.10109
- Altitude
- 91 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1872); Other (2015); LiDAR Survey (2015)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008726
- HER
- Hampshire 20196
- National record
- record SU 66 SW 9; monument 241076
- Wikidata
- Q31117036
Sources
References
- University of Reading. The Silchester Iron Age Environs Project. http://www.reading.ac.uk/silchester/Excavations/Sil-Environs-Iron-Age.aspx (accessed January 2016).
- Williams-Freeman, J.P. 1915. An introduction to field archaeology as illustrated by Hampshire, London: Macmillan and Co Ltd.
- Williams-Freeman, J.P. 1913. The Belgae through Hants, Proc Hampshire Fld Clb and Archaeol Soc, 12, 109.