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<< Our Photo Pages >> Borough Hill (Daventry) - Hillfort in England in Northamptonshire

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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Borough Hill (Daventry)
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.896 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Northamptonshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Daventry
Map Ref: SP588626  Landranger Map Number: 152
Latitude: 52.258435N  Longitude: 1.139956W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Borough Hill (Daventry) submitted by SianWatson : The south rampart (Vote or comment on this photo)
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Borough Hill (Daventry) submitted by SianWatson : The remains of the 1926 BBC 'A' transmitter mast, cycle path and ex BBC building, on the top of the hill. The hill has been in fairly continuous occupation since the neolithic, with stone and bronze axes, Bonze age burial mounds a Roman mosaic and barrows, through to occupation by the Royalist army prior to the battle of Naseby and most recently the BBC. There is excellent access owing to the... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Borough Hill online 'storymap' by Andy B on Tuesday, 13 August 2019
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Borough Hill is the site of two Iron Age hillforts. One is the fourth largest in the UK.
Borough Hill has been the site of human activity for many thousands of years. Its hilltop is legally protected as a Scheduled Monument which prohibits unauthorised digging and metal-detecting and preserves the site for future generations. Despite its prominent location, relatively little archaeological investigation has taken place to explore the historic hill and its monuments.

Now, thanks to an ongoing collaborative project between MOLA and C.L.A.S.P., Borough Hill’s story is finally being told. An aerial drone survey and complete geophysical survey was undertaken over the course of two years by a team of commercial and community archaeologists. This Storymap presents some of the findings of the surveys and tells some of the history of the hill.

Borough Hill is situated on the eastern edge of Daventry in Northamptonshire. Covering an area of 67 hectares, and measuring 1.5km from north to south, at its highest point, the hill is over 200m above sea level and rises at least 30 metres above the town below.

The high ground is formed of an outcrop of stone, part of the Northampton Sand Formation. These sand-, lime- and ironstone sedimentary bedrocks were formed approximately 170 to 174 million years ago in the Jurassic Period, when this area of Britain was still covered by shallow seas.

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