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The Earldoms
Wiltshire, England ยท Atlas EN4370
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4370 (4370)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Landford
- National Grid reference
- SU 249 216
- Latitude
- 50.99300
- Longitude
- -1.64684
- Altitude
- 61 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 2.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- woodland, commercial forestry, and arable
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1901); Excavation (1929); Earthwork Survey (1989); LiDAR Survey (2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004755
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI17217
- National record
- record SU 2 2 SW 9; monument 223137
- Wikidata
- Q31116980
Sources
References
- McOmish, D. 1989. Field investigation and survey. RCHME.
- Pugh, R.B. and Elizabeth Crittall, E. 1957. A history of Wiltshire: volume 1, part 1. The Victoria history of the counties of England, 266.
- Taylor, C. 1965. Wiltshire Archaeol Natur Hist Mag, 60, 62.