Woolbury

Woolbury
Peter Jordan · CC BY-SA 2.0

An Iron Age univallate hillfort on Stockbridge Down, Hampshire, enclosing 7.5 hectares with a single rampart and ditch. Barry Cunliffe's 1989 excavation dated initial construction to c.550 BC as part of the Danebury Environs Programme. Despite excavating 2% of the interior, no certain Iron Age structures were found, suggesting the fort served as a territorial boundary marker rather than a settlement. The surrounding landscape includes 15 Bronze Age barrows and an extensive Celtic field system first photographed in 1924. A Romano-British farmstead later occupied the interior.

TypeFortress/citadel
Period1500 - 500 BC
CountryEngland
Coordinates51.1158° N, 1.4570° W

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