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Lower Exbury Farm
Hampshire, England ยท Atlas EN3845
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3845 (3845)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Exbury and Lepe
- National Grid reference
- SZ41929872
- Latitude
- 50.78648
- Longitude
- -1.40671
- Altitude
- 5 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1798); Geophysical Survey (1995); Earthwork Survey (1995); Other (1996); LiDAR Survey (2011)
Identifiers
- HER
- Hampshire 21974
- National record
- record SZ 49 NW 3; monument 460661
- Wikidata
- Q31117151
Sources
References
- Donachie, J.D. 1996. RCHME: Lower Exbury Farm Field Report, RCHME.
- Hampshire County Council 1995, 1996. Note, Archaeology in Hampshire, annual report Hampshire County Council.
- Read, C. 2016. New Forest hillforts and smaller Iron Age enclosures, New Forest History and Archaeology Group, Report No 8, 28-39.
- Smith, N. 1999. The earthwork remains of enclosure in the New Forest, Proc Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol Soc, Hampshire Stud, 54, 8.
- Sumner, H. 1917. Ancient earthworks in the New Forest, 119.