Home / England / Hampshire / Chilworth Ring
Chilworth Ring
Hampshire, England ยท Atlas EN3815
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3815 (3815)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Chilworth
- National Grid reference
- SU41351700
- Latitude
- 50.95090
- Longitude
- -1.41273
- Altitude
- 76 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1896); Excavation (1928); Other (1992); Other (1993); Other (1953-1983)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1001941
- HER
- Hampshire 25828
- National record
- record SU 41 NW 17; monument 230144
- Wikidata
- Q31117139
Sources
References
- Anon. 1926-30. Note, Proc Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol Soc, 10, 290
- Anon. 1930. Note, Proc Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol Soc, 11, 4-5
- Crockett A. 1993. "Loutches", Chilworth Ring, Chilworth, Southampton, Hampshire: Archaeological Watching Brief, Wessex Archaeology.
- Smith, R. 1992. "Greenridge", Chilworth Ring, Chilworth, Southampton, Hampshire Archaeological Watching Brief, Wessex Archaeology.
- Williams-Freeman, J.P. 1915. An introduction to field archaeology as illustrated by Hampshire, London: Macmillan and Co Ltd, 368.