More information : (Area: SU 61355290) Winklebury (Camp) (NR). (1)
Hill Fort (NR). (2)
A much mutilated plateau fort. Where preserved, the bank is 6 feet
high, the ditch 40 feet wide and 14 feet deep. No entrances are
visible. Samian and "various undetermined local finds" are
reported. (3)
EIA'A' sherds and the base of a deer antler were found by Mrs.
Piggott in 1937 during the widening of an entrance cut in the
bank of Winklebury. (4)
Mrs. Piggott's finds were made at SU 61315275. The pottery is
in Basingstoke Museum. C.H.Read and R.A. Smith found IA sherds
and animal bones at Winklebury in the early 1900s. (5)
Scheduled. (6)
An IA'A' plateau-type hill fort, mutilated by ploughing and
housing development respectively. The inner slope of the bank is
almost ploughed out, a short fragment on the S. is all that remains;
the ditch is visible only as a slight depression for much of its
length. No original entrances were identified.
Sherds found by a Mrs. Winter in the garden of Summerville on the
W. side of the work, at SU 61175289, are similar to the 1937 finds
displayed at Basingstoke Museum. (7)
Excavations carried out by R. Robertson-Mackay for the M.O.W.
revealed a complex defence sequence dating from about the 4th c.
to the 1st c. B.C. A close set palisade had later been covered by
a rampart and then subsequently enlarged. The ditch yielded
evidence of four periods. (8)
Published 1:1250 survey correct.
No major change but housing development has further encroached upon
the earthwork along the E side. (9)
Excavation of about 2.0 ha. of the western half of the interior of
the hill-fort revealed Iron Age occupation in the form of pits,
post-holes, gullies and pottery. The pottery indicated two phases of
occupation, the first probably about 6th to 5th century B.C.,
the second late 2nd century to early 1st century B.C. Structures
associated with the first phase included four post-built houses
and ten pits, with the second phase semi-circular gullies, many more
pits and a large enclosure of at least 4,500 sq.m.
In the first phase the fort was a univallate defended settlement
with a single irregular ditch and timber-framed rampart. In the
second phase the rampart was modified to a sloping glacis bank
with a V-shaped ditch. There was probably a period of abandonment
between the two phases. (10-12)
(SU 61355290) Winklebury (NR). (13)
No change. 1:1250 survey correct. (14)
The four-post structures have been interpreted as having a non-
domestic function, probably granaries: the lack of evidence of
specialised craft activity could be taken as support for a therory
that Winklebury was a special purpose site for surplus grain storage
(15)
Burials located at the site display evidence of exposure and
excarnation (16)
Additional bibliography (17) (18)
SU 613 529. Winklebury, Hants. Listed in gazetteer as a univallate hillfort covering 6.8ha. (19) |