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Ashurst Lodge
Hampshire, England ยท Atlas EN3804
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3804 (3804)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Denny Lodge
- National Grid reference
- SU33580853
- Latitude
- 50.87523
- Longitude
- -1.52412
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
- Water source
- pool
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1869); Other (1995); LiDAR Survey (2016)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017019
- HER
- Hampshire 19964
- National record
- record SU 30 NW 11; monument 226181
- Wikidata
- Q31117082
Sources
References
- Read, C. 2016. New Forest hillforts and smaller Iron Age enclosures, New Forest History and Archaeology Group, Report No 8, 28-39.
- Sumner, H. 1917. Ancient Earthworks of the New Forest, Chiswick Press, 60.
- Williams-Freeman, J.P. 1915. An introduction to field archaeology as illustrated by Hampshire, London: Macmillan and Co Ltd.