Location
- Atlas number
- EN3840 (3840)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Micheldever
- National Grid reference
- SU49004000
- Latitude
- 51.15794
- Longitude
- -1.29968
- Altitude
- 93 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial 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
- 4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); In-turned (South west); Passage-way/Corridor (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture and arable
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
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1870); Geophysical Survey (1997); Geophysical Survey (1999); 1st Identified Written Reference (901)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1020317
- HER
- Hampshire 17713
- National record
- record SU 44 SE 19; monument 232256
- Wikidata
- Q31117301
Sources
References
- Bartlett, A. 1999. Castle Ditches, Wiltshire and Norsebury Ring, Hampshire: magnetic susceptibility surveys for Wessex Hillforts Project. Bartlett Clark Consultancy.
- Grinsell, L.V. 1958. The archaeology of Wessex : an account of Wessex antiquities from the earliest times to the end of the pagan-Saxon period, with special reference to existing field monuments, 180.
- Payne, A, Corney, M. and Cunliffe, B. 2006. The Wessex hillforts project, Extensive survey of hillfort interiors in central southern England. London: English Heritage, 66-71.
- Williams-Freeman, J.P. 1915. An introduction to field archaeology as illustrated by Hampshire, London: Macmillan and Co Ltd.