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Oliver's Battery
Hampshire, England ยท Atlas EN3841
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3841 (3841)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Itchen Stoke and Ovington
- National Grid reference
- SU58433621
- Latitude
- 51.12214
- Longitude
- -1.16651
- Altitude
- 135 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 3.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- Other (1968); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1870-1882)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1010867
- HER
- Hampshire 18111
- National record
- record SU 53 NE 15; monument 235449
- Wikidata
- Q31117308
Sources
References
- 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, London: Methuen, 181.