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Malwood Castle
Hampshire, England ยท Atlas EN3810
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3810 (3810)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Minstead
- National Grid reference
- SU27721214
- Latitude
- 50.90801
- Longitude
- -1.60713
- Altitude
- 91 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and timber-framed wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, parkland, and built-up land
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1595); Excavation (1972); Other (1869-1871); Other (1954-1982)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016493
- HER
- Hampshire
- National record
- record SU 21 SE 8; monument 222766
- Wikidata
- Q31117109
Sources
References
- Betts, U.V.G. 1973. Hampshire Field Club New Forest Section Report, Hampshire Field Club New Forest Section Report, 13, 9-10.
- Read, C. 2016. New Forest hillforts and smaller Iron Age enclosures, New Forest History and Archaeology Group, Report No 8, 28-39.
- Sumner, H. 1887. The ancient earthworks of the New Forest, 26-9
- White, H. T. 1930. The Beacon System in Hampshire, Proc Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol Soc, 10, 252-278.