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Butser Hill
Hampshire, England ยท Atlas EN3795
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3795 (3795)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Sussex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Buriton
- National Grid reference
- SU71651914
- Latitude
- 50.97773
- Longitude
- -0.98253
- Altitude
- 265 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 30 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1971); Excavation (1974); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 24319
- HER
- Hampshire 18558; 18563; 18570; 18575; 24820
- National record
- record SU 7 2 SW 11; monument 243117
- Wikidata
- Q31117039
Sources
References
- Bradley, R, 1974. The trial excavation of two earthworks on Butser Hill, Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol Soc Sec Newsl., 83-84
- Cavendish, R. 1983. Prehistoric England, London: Guild Publishing,131-132.
- Piggott, S, 1930. Butser Hill, Antiquity, 4, 187-200.
- RCHME. Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic: Butser Hill Survey