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Iron Age multivallate hill fort, rectangular Roman fort covering 210 acres defended by two banks and ditches. The bank measuring 6.5 ft high and the ditch measuring 8.2-11.4 ft wide. Two banks and ditches to the north with the outer bank measuring approximately 39.3 ft above the bottom of the ditch and 14.7 ft internally. The original entrance may have been in the south east corner and a possible second entrance in the north east corner. Additional fortifications lie to the south west and north east.
Minor road cuts through the south east corner.
Roman villa at the eastern end of the fort.
Quarrying carried out mainly on the western side.
Finds include Iron Age cremation burial, iron dagger, tinned bronze dagger sheath stone cist infant burial, chariot parts, currency bars and Durotriges coins. Roman coins and military equipment.
World War I and II War Memorial on site.
6th C BC Dating from: Pottery finds.
43 c: May have been a tribal centre.
47 c: Roman fort was occupied.
81 Dating From: Domitian coins found.
260 c Dating from: Hoard found in 1882 dating from.
3rd C Mid: Dating from: Hoard of coins found in the area.
306 Dating from: Constantine coins found.
1248 Warren established by the Beauchamp family.
1615 Fair held on the site.
1767 Market held on the site.
1861 Fair held on the site.
1866 Possible war cemetery in the north west corner. Fair held on the site.
1872 Fair held on the site.
1882 Hoard of approximately 1000 Roman coins found.
1897 Stock fair held on the site.
19th C Quarry on site.
1923-1929 Excavated.
1924 Coins dating from the Roman period found on the site.
1939-1945 World War II: Observation post consisting of two rooms and a underground shelter.
1950 Excavated.
1967 Romano-British pottery sherds found.
1975 L-shaped ditch discovered and military finds. Some quarrying on the site.
1975-1976 Watching Brief.
1983 Excavated. Pits and postholes located.
1984-1985 Evaluated.
1987 Two bronze scales from ‘lorica squamata’ found.
1989 Aerial photograph.
1990 Aerial photograph.
1992 Watching Brief.
1992 Geophysical Survey.
1992 Geophysical Survey.
1993 Geophysical Survey.
1994 Geophysical Survey.
1994 Excavated.
1995 World War II observation post demolished.
1995 Aerial photograph.
1998 Watching Brief.
1998 Excavated.
1999 Watching Brief.
2001 Watching Brief.
2001 Geophysical Survey. Rectangular enclosure found within site.
2002 Watching Brief.