Description:
An Iron Age hillfort partially excavated by Grimes.
Details:
A) Iron Age univallate hillfort of about 40 acres having a D-shaped enclosure within, which may have a Neolithic origin.
B) Excavation of inner earthwork by WF Grimes produced IA pottery.
C) It is now thought that he may not have excavated fully to the primary fill of the D-shaped enclosure(see ST94SW102) and that there are clear causeways in the earthwork bank.
Sources:
| A) AER 1434-5 County Archaeology Service, Trowbridge |
| B) C/CRAWFORD Colln 4/243 Crawford, O.G.S. |
| B) Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 57, p17 Note 1958 Grimes, W F |
| B) Victoria County History 1 1 268 1957 Grinsell, L.V. |
| B) Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 45, p274 |
| B) Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 72-3, p204 |
| B) Devizes Museum 1977.63 1977 Devizes Museum |
| B) Devizes Museum 1415 Devizes Museum |
| B) Devizes Museum Cat1 5 No 11 7-8 Nos 19a-b 1886 Cunnington, W; Goddard, E H |
| B) The Ancient History of Wiltshire vol 1, 69 1812 Hoare, Sir R.C. |
| B) Antiquity Vol 4, p 38 |
| B) Air Survey and Archaeology p36 1924 Crawford, O.G.S. |
| B) Fldwk Os Ordnance Survey |
| B) Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society Vol 29, p171 |
Data supplied by the Wiltshire Sites and Monuments Record Office. |
