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Bury Hill, Upper Clatford

Hampshire, England · Atlas EN3836

Bury Hill, Upper Clatford is a contour fort in Upper Clatford, Hampshire, England.

It is recorded as extant, with a partial bivallate and partial multivallate rampart form, surface evidence of earthen bank, and an enclosed area of 9.8 hectares.

Banks or ramparts are the remains most likely to be visible.

The topographic record places it on a hilltop and at 82 m.

The aspect is recorded as level.

Recorded land use includes woodland and pasture.

Dating evidence is recorded for 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50 (Artefactual and C14). Reliability is recorded as A - High.

A scheduled monument number is recorded (1001951).

Location

Atlas number
EN3836 (3836)
Country
England
Current county or unitary authority
Hampshire
Historic county
Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Parish, community, or townland
Upper Clatford
National Grid reference
SU34574358
Latitude
51.19035
Longitude
-1.50671
Altitude
82 m

Form and condition

Type
contour fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
partial bivallate and partial multivallate
Complete rampart circuit
Yes
Number of ramparts
3
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 3, SE 2, SW 2, NW 3
Number of ditches
2
Possible original entrances
2
Breaks through the ramparts
2
Enclosed area
9.8 ha
Enclosure areas
9.8 ha, 4.75 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank
Enclosing works, excavated
earthen bank and timber-framed wall
Also recorded
multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (South east); Blocked (North west)

Landscape

Topographic position
hilltop
Aspect
level
Land use
woodland and pasture

Dating

Dating
800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
Dating evidence
Artefactual and C14
Dating reliability
A - High

Interior and investigation

Interior excavation
pits and postholes
Finds
pottery, metal, human bones, animal bones, and lithics
Investigations
1st Identified Map Depiction (1873); Excavation (1939); Other (1971); Geophysical Survey (1990); Geophysical Survey (1997)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
1001951
HER
Hampshire 21815
National record
record SU 34 SW 6; monument 228306
Wikidata
Q31117268

Sources

References

  1. Brown, I. 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales, Oxford: Windgather Press/Oxbow Books.
  2. Cave, A. J. E, Jackson, J. W. and Zeuner, F. E. 1941. Report on the human remains, etc, from the Bury Hill excavations, 1939, Proc Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol Soc, 51 43-52.
  3. Cunliffe, B.W. and Poole, C. 2000. The Danebury Environs Programme - the prehistory of a Wessex landscape, Vol 2, Part 2 - Bury Hill, Upper Clatford, Hants 1990. Oxford: English Heritage/ Oxford U Committee Archaeol Monograph 49 (Part 2).
  4. Haselgrove, C., Gosden, C., Hamilton, D., Brown, L. and Poole, C. Forthcoming. Iron Age settlement and society in central southern Britain: a new chronological perspective. Oxford: School of Archaeology Monograph.
  5. Hawkes, C.F.C. 1940. The excavations at Bury Hill 1939. Proc Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol Soc, 14, 291-337.
  6. Payne, A, Corney, M. and Cunliffe, B. 2006. The Wessex hillforts project, Extensive survey of hillfort interiors in central southern England. London: English Heritage, 54-58.
  7. Williams-Freeman, J.P. 1915. An introduction to field archaeology as illustrated by Hampshire, London: Macmillan and Co Ltd, 138-40, 363