Site Name: Old Sarum
Civil Parish: New Sarum (Salisbury)
Grid Ref: 413800, 132700

Description:
An Iron Age hillfort excavated in 1911 and 1957

Details:

A) A hillfort substantially altered in later periods.

B) Pottery found during excavation in 1957 showed was it occupied at some point in the late Iron Age.

C) Excavations by St John Hope in 1911 found an Iron Age pit in south.

D) Early Iron Age finds are known.


Sources:

A) RCHM 1980 1-13
B) Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 57, p352-370
C) Archaeological Journal Vol 104, p129-139
D) Antiquaries Journal Vol 17, p438-440
X) Victoria County History 1 1 270 1957 Grinsell, L.V.
X) Victoria County History Vol 6, p52-53
X) Salisbury Museum 1959.55; 1959.55.1 1959 Salisbury 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