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Bincknoll Castle
Wiltshire, England ยท Atlas EN4253
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4253 (4253)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Broad Hinton
- National Grid reference
- SU107792
- Latitude
- 51.51221
- Longitude
- -1.84618
- Altitude
- 186 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885); Other (1975); Earthwork Survey (2003)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005685
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MW115243
- National record
- record SU 17 NW 2; monument 221351
- Wikidata
- Q31116955
Sources
References
- Field, D. and Maxfield, C. Unpublished English Heritage Archaeological Survey Report, AI/18/2003.
- Pugh, R. B. (ed.), 1957. The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of Wiltshire, Serial/Publisher: Oxford University Press, Volume I, Part 1, 263-4.