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Ashleys Copse
Hampshire, England · Atlas EN3827
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3827 (3827)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Winterslow
- Also recorded in
- Wiltshire
- National Grid reference
- SU26083483
- Latitude
- 51.11212
- Longitude
- -1.62883
- Altitude
- 152 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope 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
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 2.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); Outworks (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- Other (1992); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871-1876); Other (1956-1969)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1001796
- HER
- Hampshire 22372
- National record
- record SU 23 SE 2; monument 223403
- Wikidata
- Q31117206
Sources
References
- Payne, A, Corney, M. and Cunliffe, B. 2006. The Wessex hillforts project, Extensive survey of hillfort interiors in central southern England. London: English Heritage, 142.
- Williams-Freeman, J.P. 1915. An introduction to field archaeology as illustrated by Hampshire, London: Macmillan and Co Ltd, 136-7, 348.
- Williams-Freeman, J.P 1931. Note, Proc Hampshire Field Club Archaeol Soc, 12, 120.