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<< Text Pages >> Lewesdon Hillfort - Hillfort in England in Dorset

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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Lewesdon Hillfort
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 5.441 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Dorset Type: Hillfort

Map Ref: ST437012
Latitude: 50.807604N  Longitude: 2.800391W
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
2 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.
3 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
4

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Hillfort in Dorset

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"A large univallate hillfort on the top of a narrow hill. The hillfort is defended on its south western and south eastern sides by a precipitous scarp. Along the northern side where the slope is less steep there are traces of an infilled ditch about 7 metres below the level of the interior which covers an area of about 1.2ha. At the western and southern end the hillfort is approached across narrow ridges which create natural causeways. At the western end, crossing the ridge, there is a slight ditch, 2.5 metres wide and 0.5 metres deep, with traces of an outer bank, 4 metres wide and up to 0.5 metres high. Inside the enclosure there are traces of a bank, up to 0.5 metres high, running along the edge of the scarp which may be the remains of an inner rampart. Similarly at the southern end the slope levels off suggesting an infilled ditch with a counterscarp bank which crosses the ridge. The line of the ditch continues as a ledge along the south western scarp for about 80 metres. There is a possible internal rampart cutting across the ridge 4 metres wide and up to 0.8 metres high at this end. The interior of the hillfort has been disturbed by gravel digging and timber removal. Scheduled."

Source: Pastscape
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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
ST4301 : On Lewesdon Hill by Michael Graham
by Michael Graham
©2013(licence)
ST4301 : Lewesdon Hill by Richard Webb
by Richard Webb
©2014(licence)
ST4301 : Summit of Lewesdon Hill on a July evening by Maurice D Budden
by Maurice D Budden
©2021(licence)
ST4301 : Summit area of Lewesdon Hill by Trevor Littlewood
by Trevor Littlewood
©2011(licence)
ST4301 : Lewesdon Hill by Rude Health
by Rude Health
©2013(licence)

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