Monument record 0124512000 - Ivinghoe Beacon Hillfort Palisades

Summary

Timber stockade added to the earthwork ramparts in the late Iron Age recorded in geophysical survey

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  • Ancient Monument 1009544: A SLIGHT UNIVALLATE HILLFORT AND BOWL BARROW ON IVINGHOE BEACON HILL
  • Ancient Monument 1009544: A SLIGHT UNIVALLATE HILLFORT AND BOWL BARROW ON IVINGHOE BEACON HILL

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Type and Period (1)

  • PALISADE (Middle Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 400 BC to 42 AD)

Description

A geophysical survey carried out as a student project in 2000 is believed to show evidence of a palisade rebuilt over time in three alignments on the western edge of the fort and a single alignment on the northern rampart (16).
English Heritage's Earthwork Survey Report of November 2000, suggests that the question of revetments on the main rampart remains unresolved but it seems likely that there was a palisade from the evidence revealed by Gover (17)
Note: GIS plot of palisades estimated from illustrations in above source (16)

Sources (18)

  • ---SBC17662 Aerial Photograph: 18/04/61. CUC ACT 41. SP\960160. Yes.
  • ---SBC19856 Photograph: John Gover. 2000. Bronze Age Sword Find from Ivinghoe Beacon Hill Fort. Print.
  • <1>SBC12905 Bibliographic reference: RCHM BUCKS 2 P154.
  • <2>SBC903 Unpublished document: BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTER.
  • <3>SBC8141 Article in serial: 1960. MANSHEAD MAGAZINE 1960 (JUNE) 4. No 4.
  • <4>SBC4459 Article in serial: James Dyer. 1959. DYER J F 1959 BARROWS OF THE CHILTERNS, IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL JNL 116 P16. Vol 116.
  • <5>SBC11717 Bibliographic reference: PEVSNER N 1960 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE P179.
  • <6>SBC3219 Article in serial: M A Cotton & S S Frere. 1968. 'IVINGHOE BEACON EXCAVATIONS 1963-1965', IN RECS OF BUCKS 18 PP187-260. Vol 18, part 3.
  • <7>SBC5953 Unpublished document: 1920. GURNEY F G 1920 NOTEBOOK/DIARY.
  • <8>SBC10870 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. OS RECORD CARD SP 91 NE 5 (FILED).
  • <9>SBC3304 Bibliographic reference: CUNLIFFE B 1974 IRON AGE COMMUNITIES IN BRITAIN PP35,229.
  • <10>SBC12442 Bibliographic reference: PROPERTIES OF THE NATIONAL TRUST (1977).
  • <12>SBC4783 Verbal communication: FARLEY M E & PIKE A R (BCM) APRIL 1977 FIELD VISIT.
  • <13>SBC5832 Article in serial: 1981. GREEN H S 1981 DATING IVINGHOE BEACON, IN RECS OF BUCKS 23 PP1-3. Vol 23.
  • <14>SBC3353 Unpublished document: DALWOOD C H 1984/MDA CARDS.
  • <15>SBC2569 Verbal communication: CASTLE S A (BRITISH MUSEUM) PER VERULAMIUM MUSEUM, ST ALBANS, SEPT 1985.
  • <16>SBC19148 Unpublished document: John Gover. 2000. A Geophysical Investigation of Ivinghoe Beacon.
  • <17>SBC19493 Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2001. Ivinghoe Beacon, Ivinghoe: Survey Report.

Location

Grid reference Centred SP 96000 16830 (102m by 127m)
Civil Parish IVINGHOE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Survey: Geophysical surveys (EBC16178)

Record last edited

Aug 10 2020 8:10PM

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