Monument record 1677/1/5 - Hillfort rampart

{1} The top of the surviving rampart here is undulating, but its average surviving height above the quarry face is 1m. The face of the rampart is composed of orange clay and ironstone grits, and the rampart itself was found to overlay a buried soil of brown clay or clayey soil, come 10cm thick. The post holes or trench supporting the internal timber revetment probably does not survive here. There is no evidence of any of the layers from the phase 2 rampart surviving here. The homogeneous nature of the make-up suggests the surviving rampart is probably part of the core of the phase 1 structure.

<1> Jackson D.; Tingle M., 2004, Hunsbury Hill Fort: A New Survey, Appendix 1 (checked) (Full Report). SNN105160.

<2> Jackson, D. & Tingle, M., 2012, An Archaeological Survey of the Hunsbury Hillfort Defences, 37/ 127 (checked) (Article). SNN108365.

Record last edited

Dec 7 2012 2:54PM