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Castle Piece, Roe Wood
Hampshire, England ยท Atlas EN3805
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3805 (3805)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley
- National Grid reference
- SU1990208932
- Latitude
- 50.87948
- Longitude
- -1.71850
- Altitude
- 61 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland, commercial forestry, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1978); Other (1979); Other (1995); LiDAR Survey (2015); Other (1969-1982); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016716
- HER
- Hampshire 20216
- National record
- record SU 10 NE 7
- Wikidata
- Q31117091
Sources
References
- Prehistoric Society 1980. Summary excavation report, Proc Prehist Soc, 46, 350.
- 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. The ancient earthworks of the New Forest, 26.
- Williams-Freeman, J.P. 1915. An introduction to field archaeology as illustrated by Hampshire, London: Macmillan and Co Ltd, 170, 433..