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Dicketts Plantation
Hampshire, England · Atlas EN3796
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3796 (3796)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Froyle
- National Grid reference
- SU72324345
- Latitude
- 51.18565
- Longitude
- -0.96662
- Altitude
- 219 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 5.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Excavation (1978); Geophysical Survey (2000); Other (2011); Other (1964-1965)
Identifiers
- HER
- Hampshire 17442
- National record
- record SU 74 SW; monument 244030
- Wikidata
- Q31117000
Sources
References
- Millett, M. 1981. Iron Age hillfort on Holybourne Down, Proc Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol Soc, 37, 49-53.
- Pringle, P. 2011. Exploring the Iron Age on Holybourne Down. A Hampshire hillfort reconsidered, Undergraduate thesis, University of Winchester.