Location
- Atlas number
- EN3801 (3801)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Havant
- National Grid reference
- SZ73159986
- Latitude
- 50.79363
- Longitude
- -0.96351
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- 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
- 3.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, other burning, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory and lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1518); Excavation (1959); Excavation (1971); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1867-1881); Other (1955-1969)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1001945
- HER
- Hampshire 23329
- National record
- record SZ 79 NW 1; monument 462185
- Wikidata
- Q31117077
Sources
References
- Bradley R. and Fulford, M. 1975. Excavations at Tournerbury, Hayling Island, 1959 and 1971, Proc Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol Soc, 32, 63-69.
- Page, W. 1908. The Victoria history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, Vol 3, The Victoria history of the counties of England, 129.
- Williams-Freeman, J.P. 1915. An introduction to field archaeology as illustrated by Hampshire, London: Macmillan and Co Ltd.