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Frankenbury
Hampshire, England ยท Atlas EN3806
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3806 (3806)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Fordingbridge
- National Grid reference
- SU16731522
- Latitude
- 50.93612
- Longitude
- -1.76330
- Altitude
- 79 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour 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
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 4.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1961); LiDAR Survey (2015); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Other (1969-1982)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1019125
- HER
- Hampshire
- National record
- record SU 11 NE 21; monument 217185
- Wikidata
- Q31117093
Sources
References
- Sumner, H,1917. The Ancient Earthworks of the New Forest, 20-1.
- Williams-Freeman, J.P. 1915. An introduction to field archaeology as illustrated by Hampshire, London: Macmillan and Co Ltd, 174-5.