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Yaverland
Isle of Wight, England · Atlas EN4235
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4235 (4235)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Isle of Wight
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bembridge
- National Grid reference
- SZ61508616
- Latitude
- 50.67180
- Longitude
- -1.13106
- Altitude
- 17 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture
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 and metal
- Investigations
- Geophysical Survey (2001); Excavation (2001)
Identifiers
- HER
- Isle of Wight MIW4868
- Wikidata
- Q31118121
Sources
References
- Time Team investigation report 2001 (Isle of Wight HER officer refers).
- Wrench, C.L. 2012. Evidence of hillforts on the Isle of Wight, Unpublished paper, University of Oxford.