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Whitsbury Castle Ditches
Hampshire, England · Atlas EN3812
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3812 (3812)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Whitsbury
- National Grid reference
- SU 1280 1968
- Latitude
- 50.97633
- Longitude
- -1.81907
- Altitude
- 123 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 6.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- guard chambers, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); Simple Gap (North); Recesses/Guard Chambers (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, parkland, and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); LiDAR Survey (2015); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Other (1953-1982); Excavation (1960-1961)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1020316
- HER
- Hampshire 21475
- National record
- record SU 11 NW 2; monument 217258
- Wikidata
- Q31117123
Sources
References
- Elison, A. and Rahtz, P.A. 1987. Excavations at Whitsbury Castle Ditches, Hampshire, 1960, Proc Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol Soc, 43, 63-81.
- Sumner, H. 1913. The ancient earthworks of Cranborne Chase, 20-22.
- Williams-Freeman, J.P. 1915. An introduction to field archaeology as illustrated by Hampshire, London: Macmillan and Co Ltd, 418.