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Bonchurch
Isle of Wight, England ยท Atlas EN4234
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4234 (4234)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Isle of Wight
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ventnor
- National Grid reference
- SZ57877802
- Latitude
- 50.59882
- Longitude
- -1.18370
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort and hillslope fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1849); Other (1855); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1862); Other (1955)
Identifiers
- HER
- Isle of Wight MIW817
- National record
- record SZ 57 NE 43; monument 460949
- Wikidata
- Q31118111
Sources
References
- Brown, I 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales, Oxford: Windgather Press/Oxbow Books.
- Doubleday, H.A. ed.,1900. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Vol I, The Victoria history of the Counties of England, (Haverfield), London: Constable, 347.
- Lockhart, C.S.M. 1870. A General Guide to the Isle of Wight, (London: Virtue and Co.
- Martin, G.A. 1849. The 'Undercliff' of the Isle of Wight: its climate, history, and natural productions, London: J.Churchill.
- Wrench, C.L. 2012. Evidence of hillforts on the Isle of Wight, Unpublished paper, University of Oxford.