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Gorley Hill
Hampshire, England ยท Atlas EN3807
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3807 (3807)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hyde
- National Grid reference
- SU16551131
- Latitude
- 50.90277
- Longitude
- -1.76603
- Altitude
- 46 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 3.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- environmental material
- Investigations
- Excavation (1916); LiDAR Survey (2011)
Identifiers
- HER
- Hampshire 20984
- National record
- record SU 11 SE 12; monument 217389
- Wikidata
- Q31117007
Sources
References
- Forde-Johnston, J. 1976. Hillforts of the iron age in England and Wales :a survey of the surface evidence. 207;231
- Pasmore, A. 2005. New Forest Commons. Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol Soc New Forest Sec Rep, 3, 82.
- Read, C. 2016. New Forest hillforts and smaller Iron Age enclosures, New Forest History and Archaeology Group, Report No 8, 28-39.
- Smith, N. 1999. The earthwork remains of enclosure in the New Forest, Proc Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol Soc, 54, Hampshire Stud, 10
- Sumner, H,1917. The Ancient Earthworks of the New Forest, 44-47.