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St John's Hill, Worldham
Hampshire, England · Atlas EN3797
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3797 (3797)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Worldham
- National Grid reference
- SU75583772
- Latitude
- 51.13347
- Longitude
- -0.92139
- Altitude
- 183 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1939); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871-1874); Excavation (1947-1950)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 10204314
- HER
- Hampshire 17217
- National record
- record SD U7 3NE 4; monument 243207
- Wikidata
- Q31117049
Sources
References
- Maitland Muller, M. 1950. Alton Museum Report, Alton Museum Report, 17, 5.
- Williams-Freeman, J. 1940. King John's Hill, East Worldham, Proc Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol Soc,, 14, 398-99.