Monument record 0632102003 - Taplow Hillfort:Entrance features to Iron Age hillfort
Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Map
Type and Period (7)
- PIT (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC to 42 AD)
- POST HOLE (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC to 42 AD)
- CONSTRUCTION TRENCH? (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC to 42 AD)
- DITCH (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC to 42 AD)
- GULLY (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC to 42 AD)
- GATE? (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC to 42 AD)
- HORNWORK? (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC to 42 AD)
Description
The remains of a structure probably associated with the entrance through the U-profiled ditch were found at the northern end of the excavation. They consist of a pit near the rampart, which may have held a gate-post that burnt in situ and have been associated with a row of 7 postholes set within a foundation trench. These features probably formed just one side of a timber passageway extending from the rampart to the ditch. Since, however, only one side of this structure was revealed, and even that was heavily disturbed by recent activity, the form of the structure remains uncertain. The ditch of a hornwork was also found, running east from the end of the U-profiled ditch for 8m and then turning to the north for a short distance. There may have been a similar hornwork on the north side of the entrance and together they would have narrowed and elongated the approach to the entrance (B2).
Sources (4)
- ---SBC20136 Photograph: Sandy Kidd (BCC). 1999. Photographs taken during Oxford Archaeology's Open Day at Taplow Hill Fort. 35mm. Print. 3in x 5in.
- ---SBC20137 Photograph: Sandy Kidd. 1999. Colour and B/W photograhs taken of Oxford Archaeology's area excavation of Taplow Hillfort. 35mm. 3in x 5in.
- <1>SBC20135 Article in serial: Tim Allen & Hugo Lamdin-Whymark. 2001. 'The Taplow Hillfort', in Current Archaeology 175. 175.
- <2>SBC22946 Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeology. 2007. Taplow Court, Buckinghamshire: Draft Publication Report. pp 93-97.
Location
| Grid reference | SU 90676 82403 (point) |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | TAPLOW, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire |
Finds (5)
- FLAKE (Early Bronze Age to Late Iron Age - 2350 BC? to 42 AD?)
- SHERD (Early Iron Age to Middle Iron Age - 700 BC to 101 BC)
- BURNT FLINT (Early Iron Age to Middle Iron Age - 700 BC? to 101 BC?)
- CHARCOAL (Early Iron Age to Middle Iron Age - 700 BC? to 101 BC?) + Sci.Date
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Early Iron Age to Middle Iron Age - 700 BC to 101 BC)
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Related Events/Activities (1)
- Event - Intervention: Area excavation of hillfort at Taplow Court (EBC16343)
Record last edited
Mar 27 2018 11:00AM
