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Hamble Common
Hampshire, England ยท Atlas EN3798
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3798 (3798)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hamble-Le-Rice
- National Grid reference
- SU48210603
- Latitude
- 50.85172
- Longitude
- -1.31652
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1951); Other (1955-1983)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008695
- HER
- Hampshire
- National record
- record SU 40 NE 10; monument 229669
- Wikidata
- Q31117059
Sources
References
- Williams-Freeman, J.P. 1915. An introduction to field archaeology as illustrated by Hampshire, London: Macmillan and Co Ltd, 433.