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Castle Hill, Burley
Hampshire, England ยท Atlas EN3802
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3802 (3802)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Burley
- National Grid reference
- SU19870393
- Latitude
- 50.83450
- Longitude
- -1.71922
- Altitude
- 94 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
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1997); LiDAR Survey (2015); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871-1872); Other (1954-1982)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 226
- HER
- Hampshire 19992
- National record
- record SU 71 0SE 9; monument 217006
- Wikidata
- Q31117081
Sources
References
- Kavanagh H. 1997. Report on the watching brief at Castle Camp, Burley, Hampshire: replacement of water main, Southampton Archaeology Report No 164.
- Read, C. 2016. New Forest hillforts and smaller Iron Age enclosures, New Forest History and Archaeology Group, Report No 8, 28-39.
- Sumner, Heywood 1917. Ancient Earthworks of the New Forest, Chiswick Press, 21-23.
- Williams-Freeman, J.P. 1915. An introduction to field archaeology as illustrated by Hampshire, London: Macmillan and Co Ltd.