Description:
Iron Age hillfort.
Details:
A) Bi-vallate hillfort of 23 acres. Entrance on S side.
B) Quernstonesand large pebbles found c.1812. Jeffrey Whittaker excavated in the interior in the 18th century.
C) Visited 6:1980.
D) Sherds found 1982.
E) Much erosion on the ramparts reported in 1979.
F) A watching brief on a series of gateposts holes revealed the base of the rampart to the north side of the hillfort near the boundary with the chalk and clay substrata, containing a single fragment of a cattle tooth.
Sources:
| X) E/AO 87+92 Cambridge University Aerial Photograph Unit |
| X) AER 1427-8 County Archaeology Service, Trowbridge |
| A) Victoria County History 1 1 263(54) 1957 Grinsell, L.V. |
| B) The Ancient History of Wiltshire Vol 1, 55 1812 Hoare, Sir R.C. |
| C) Fldwk L Brown 1980 1980 Brown, Sally |
| D) Fieldwork Jack Pile 1982 1982 Pile, Jack |
| E) Fieldwork L Brown 1979 1979 Brown, Sally |
| X) Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Societys Bulletin 25 Spring 1979 11-13 1979 Whitaker, J |
Data supplied by the Wiltshire Sites and Monuments Record Office. |
