LiDAR 1m DTM Hillshade
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LiDAR 1m DTM Hillshade
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HER: Hampshire 20216 (None)
NMR: SU 10 NE 7 (None)
SM: 1016716
NGR: SU1990208932
X: 419902 Y: 108932 (OSGB36)
Possible univallate hillslope fort located on WSW-facing slope of gravel spur above confluence of Linford Brook on W and stream joining on SW in New Forest. Moderate to strong surrounding slopes. Possible hillfort, but tentatively interpreted by an RCHME survey in 1995 as an Iron Age farmstead. Sub-circular/oval in plan enclosing c. 2.2ha. Defined by single spread rampart constructed of sandy, gravelly clay, with intermittent outer ditch. Signs of slumping (Read 2016, 38). Best on S. Bank varies 12m-15m in width to maximum 2m high. Ditch, where visible, 12m-16m wide and maximum 1m deep. Possible counterscarp at base of NE rampart. Gap on SE side is flanked by slightly inturned earthwork terminals single original entrance. In 1978 New Forest section of Hampshire Field Club recorded inner edge of ditch beneath spread bank material, but with no finds, within a damaged section. On OS 1:25,000 map (1961). Undated.
Citizen Science: ✓
Reliability of Data: Confirmed
Reliability of Interpretation: Unconfirmed
X: -191302 Y: 6600003 (EPSG: 3857)
Longitude: -1.7184975877697708 Latitude: 50.87947967076692 (EPSG:4326)
Country: England
Current County or Unitary Authority: Hampshire
Historic County: Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Current Parish/Community/Council/Townland: Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley
Bank spread. Partially disturbed by a trackway which bisects its eastern side. Damaged by forestry operations.
| Extant | ✓ |
| Cropmark | ✗ |
| Likely Destroyed | ✗ |
Dense woodland/plantation.
| Woodland | ✓ |
| Commercial Forestry Plantation | ✓ |
| Parkland | ✗ |
| Pasture (Grazing) | ✗ |
| Arable | ✗ |
| Scrub/Bracken | ✓ |
| Bare Outcrop | ✗ |
| Heather/Moorland | ✗ |
| Heath | ✗ |
| Built-up | ✗ |
| Coastal Grassland | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
Possible univallate hillslope fort located on WSW-facing slope of gravel spur above confluence of Linford Brook on W and stream joining on SW in New Forest. Moderate to strong surrounding slopes.
| Contour Fort | ✗ |
| Partial Contour Fort | ✗ |
| Promontory Fort | ✗ |
| Hillslope Fort | ✓ |
| Level Terrain Fort | ✗ |
| Marsh Fort | ✗ |
| Multiple Enclosure Fort | ✗ |
| Hilltop | ✗ |
| Coastal Promontory | ✗ |
| Inland Promontory | ✗ |
| Valley Bottom | ✗ |
| Knoll/Hillock/Outcrop | ✗ |
| Ridge | ✗ |
| Cliff/Plateau-edge/Scarp | ✗ |
| Hillslope | ✓ |
| Lowland | ✗ |
| Spur | ✗ |
Dominant Topographic Feature: Hillslope
| North | ✗ |
| Northeast | ✗ |
| East | ✗ |
| Southeast | ✗ |
| South | ✗ |
| Southwest | ✓ |
| West | ✗ |
| Northwest | ✗ |
| Level | ✗ |
Altitude: 61.0m
N/A
None.
Reliability: D - None
| Pre 1200BC | ✗ |
| 1200BC - 800BC | ✗ |
| 800BC - 400BC | ✗ |
| 400BC - AD50 | ✗ |
| AD50 - AD400 | ✗ |
| AD400 - AD 800 | ✗ |
| Post AD800 | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✓ |
| Pre Hillfort: | None |
| Post Hillfort: | None |
Field investigator comments 1969, 1982. New Forest section of Hampshire Field Club recording 1978. Excavation R.T. Shadia-Hall, Hampshire Counrty Museum Service 1979 - no details. Field Investigation N Smith, RCHME 1995. Possible measured survey - undated - no details. New Forest NPA LiDar survey - Citizen Science 2015. On OS 1:25,000 map (1961).
| Other (1978): | New Forest section of Hampshire Field Club recording. |
| Other (1979): | R.T. Shadia-Hall, Hampshire Counrty Museum Service. |
| Other (1995): | Field Investigation, N Smith, RCHME 1995 |
| LiDAR Survey (2015): | New Forest NPA. |
| Other (None): | Field investigator comments - no details. |
| Other (None): | Possible measured survey - no details. |
Heavily wooded - none recorded.
None
| None | ✓ |
| Spring | ✗ |
| Stream | ✗ |
| Pool | ✗ |
| Flush | ✗ |
| Well | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
Heavily wooded - none recorded.
| No Known Features | ✓ |
| Round Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Rectangular Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Curvilinear Platforms | ✗ |
| Other Roundhouse Evidence | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| No Known Excavation | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
None
| No Known Geophysics | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
None
| No Known Finds | ✓ |
| Pottery | ✗ |
| Metal | ✗ |
| Metalworking | ✗ |
| Human Bones | ✗ |
| Animal Bones | ✗ |
| Lithics | ✗ |
| Environmental | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| APs Not Checked | ✓ |
| None | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
Gap on SE side c. 8m wide is flanked by slightly inturned earthwork terminals single original entrance.
| 1: | None |
| 2: | None |
Guard Chambers: ✗
Chevaux de Frise: ✗
| 1. In-turned (South east): | Slightly inturned. |
Defined by single spread rampart constructed of sandy, gravelly clay, with intermittent outer ditch. Best on S. Bank varies 12m-15m in width to maximum 2m high. Ditch, where visible, 12m-16m wide and maximum 1m deep. Possible counterscarp at base of NE rampart. Not excavation as such, but In 1978 New Forest section of Hampshire Field Club recorded inner edge of ditch beneath spread bank material, but with no finds, within a damaged section.
| Area 1: | 2.2ha. |
| Total: | 2.2ha. |
Total Footprint Area: Noneha.
None
| ✗ | None |
| ✓ | None |
| NE Quadrant: | 1 |
| SE Quadrant: | 1 |
| SW Quadrant: | 1 |
| NW Quadrant: | 1 |
| Total: | 1 |
| Partial Univallate | ✗ |
| Univallate | ✓ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✗ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✗ |
| Partial Univallate | ✗ |
| Univallate | ✗ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✗ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
Possible counterscarp at base of NE rampart.
| None | ✗ |
| Earthen Bank | ✓ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Rubble | ✗ |
| Wall-walk | ✗ |
| Evidence of Timber | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✓ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| None | ✗ |
| Earthen Bank | ✗ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Murus Duplex | ✗ |
| Timber-framed | ✗ |
| Timber-laced | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| No Known Excavation | ✓ |
| Other | ✗ |
| ✗ | None |
| ✓ | Intermittent ditch. Not excavation as such, but In 1978 New Forest section of Hampshire Field Club recorded inner edge of ditch beneath spread bank material, but with no finds, within a damaged section. Rampart constructed sandy, gravelly clay. |
Number of Ditches: 1
| ✗ | None |
Prehistoric Society 1980. Summary excavation report, Proc Prehist Soc, 46, 350.
Read, C. 2016. New Forest hillforts and smaller Iron Age enclosures, New Forest History and Archaeology Group, Report No 8, 28-39.
Sumner, H. 1917. The ancient earthworks of the New Forest, 26.
Williams-Freeman, J.P. 1915. An introduction to field archaeology as illustrated by Hampshire, London: Macmillan and Co Ltd, 170, 433..
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