Description:
An Iron Age hillfort partially excavated.
Details:
A) Hoare described its appearance.
B) A bivallate hillfort of 17 acres. C)Iron Age A/B sherds were found during excavation of a section of the innermost bank.
D) Owen Meyrick found Iron Age 'A' sherds in 1948.
E) 2 abraded sherds.
F) A sub-triangular bivallate hillfort constructed on the site of a Neolithic settlement (See SU25SW101). Both were partially excavated in the 19th century and the 1950's. A straight, well defined ditch extends from the main entrance, which is on the north-west side.
G) A landscape appraisal in 2002 recommended the removal of 1960s coniferous tree planting.
Sources:
| X) AER 1793 County Archaeology Service, Trowbridge |
| A) The Ancient History of Wiltshire Vol 1, 180 1812 Hoare, Sir R.C. |
| B) Victoria County History 1 1 268(162) 1957 Grinsell, L.V. |
| C) Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 62, p115-6 1967 |
| D) Devizes Museum 1984.100.171 (finds Lost) 1984 Devizes Museum; Meyrick, Owen |
| E) Devizes Museum 1995.64 1995 |
| X) Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 68, p130 |
| X) Devizes Museum 1972.54 1972 Devizes Museum |
Data supplied by the Wiltshire Sites and Monuments Record Office. |
