CODFORD CIRCLE


Description:  An earthwork hilltop enclosure situated on the crest of Codford Hill, a chalk promontory of Salisbury Plain. An elevated oval area of 3.6 hectares is surrounded by a bank 6.5 metres wide and up to 1.6 metres high from the outside. This is surrounded by a ditch 5 metres wide and up to 0.5 metres deep except for a section around the south eastern edge where it has been reduced by ploughing. Air photographs taken in 2001 revealed an inner ditch, probably a palisade, running concentric to the earthwork and with clear opposing entrances to the east and west. Entrances on the south east and north west through the earthworks are modern.

Country:  ENGLAND

County:  WILTSHIRE

District:  WEST WILTSHIRE

Parish:  CODFORD

Grid Reference:   ST98254056

Map Reference:  [EPSG:27700] 398250, 140560

Period:  IRON AGE, LATER PREHISTORIC

Subject:  CROPMARK, EARTHWORK, HILLTOP ENCLOSURE, PALISADED ENCLOSURE

Identifiers: 
[ADS] Depositor Id: ST 94 SE 17
[ADS] Import RCN: NMR_NATINV-211362

People Involved: 
[Publisher] Historic England