Site Name: Broadbury Banks
Civil Parish: Wilsford
Grid Ref: 409270, 155550

Description:
An Iron Age enclosure which was perhaps never completed.

Details:
A defended enclosure, probably never completed. The west side is preserved best with an inner bank 8m wide, ditch 4m wide. N and E of the hillfort has been reduced to a simple scarp.


Sources:

Victoria County History 1 1 270(231) 1957 Grinsell, L.V.
Archaeology of Wessex p174 1958 Grinsell, L V
Devizes Museum Cat2 92(806-815) 1911 Cunnington, M E; Goddard, E H

Data supplied by the Wiltshire Sites and Monuments Record Office.

Recommended books on hill forts;
Danebury Hillfort ~ Barry Cunliffe
Hillforts of England and Wales ~ James Dyer
Cadbury Castle - The Hillfort and Landscapes ~ Richard Tabor
The Wessex Hillfort Project ~ Andrew Payne, Mark Corney and Barry Cunliffe
Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park ~ Stewart Ainsworth and Trevor Pearson
Celtic Fortifications ~ Ian Ralston