Site Name: Giants Grave
Civil Parish: Wilcot
Grid Ref: 416630, 163240

Description:
An Iron Age hillfort.

Details:

A) Promontory fort (known as Giant's Grave), protected on the east by two ramparts. Sherds include furrowed and cordoned haematite wares and sherds of black ware, etc.

B) Some disturbance by tracking and quarrying.

C) Two sherds.


Sources:

D/SU1763/1/90-106 English Heritage
D/SU1663/1/85-8 English Heritage
AER/C/145 County Archaeology Service, Tro
A) Victoria County History 1 1 121 270 1957 Grinsell, L.V.
Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 51 256-257
Report of the Marlborough College Natural History Society Vol 73, p 55-6 Marlborough College
B) Fldwk OS 1974 1974 Ordnance Survey
C) Devizes Museum 1986.153 1986 Devizes Museum

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