Site Name: Forest Hill Farm
Civil Parish: Mildenhall
Grid Ref: 420900, 168650

Description:
An Iron Age hillfort.

Details:

A) A probable hillfort (unfinished) including trackways and lynchets.

B) Owen Meyrick found IA 'A' and IA 'C' sherds and animal bone in 1954 and 1956, also a scraper.

C) No finds were made from an evaluation in 1994.


Sources:

Forest Hill, Mildenhall 1994 Wessex Archaeology
X) D/SU2168/1/59 English Heritage
X) D/SU2068/1-4 English Heritage
X) D/SU2165/1/9338 English Heritage
AER/C/770-1 County Archaeology Service, Trowbridge
A) Victoria County History 1 1 267(157) 1957 Grinsell, L.V.
B) Devizes Museum 1984.100.259 & 275 Devizes Museum Owen Meyrick
C) Britannia Vol 28, p337-349

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