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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox ancient site Banbury Hillfort, or Banbury Hill Camp, is an Iron Age hillfort, about Шаблон:Convert south of Sturminster Newton and Шаблон:Convert north-west of the village of Okeford Fitzpaine in Dorset, England.

Файл:Banbury Hill Digital Terrain Model.jpg
3D view of the digital terrain model

It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.[1]

Description

The fort is on a low hill: a single bank encloses a roughly circular area of about Шаблон:Convert. The site has been affected in the past by ploughing. Where best preserved, the rampart is Шаблон:Convert wide and Шаблон:Convert above the interior, with an external ditch, visible in places, of width Шаблон:Convert and depth Шаблон:Convert.[1][2]

There is an original entrance on the west side, protected by an external bank Шаблон:Convert wide and Шаблон:Convert high, with traces of an external ditch. This bank, branching out from the north west part of the rampart, runs south-west and then curves towards the fort, so that there is a passage into the fort from the south, at one point down to about Шаблон:Convert wide.[1][2]

There are no traces of remains in the interior.[2]

The rampart (ascertained as a result of excavation in 1986 of a trench for a water pipe) has been found to be of local limestone, with some fragments of flint and chert.[1]

See also

References

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Шаблон:Iron Age hillforts in England