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Old Winchester Hill
Hampshire, England ยท Atlas EN3837
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3837 (3837)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Corhampton and Meonstoke
- National Grid reference
- SU64102055
- Latitude
- 50.98074
- Longitude
- -1.08827
- Altitude
- 199 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 5.67 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east); In-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and pits
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1884); Other (1971); Earthwork Survey (1994); Geophysical Survey (1995); Other (1996); 1st Identified Written Reference (1461-1483); Other (1968-1983)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017899
- HER
- Hampshire 24565
- National record
- record SU 62 SW 25; monument 239439
- Wikidata
- Q31117279
Sources
References
- Payne, A. 1995. Old Winchester Hill, Corhampton ... preliminary report on geophysical survey, Ancient Monuments Laboratory.
- Williams-Freeman, J.P. 1915. An introduction to field archaeology as illustrated by Hampshire, London: Macmillan and Co Ltd.