More information : [SU 6287 6615 to SU 6298 6602] At Raven Hill is an I.A. promontory Fort, consisting of a straight Bank and ditch running NW/SE across the neck of a promontory. The SE end of the rampart is returned, which indicates 'with hardly any element of doubt' a Pre-Roman date. (1)
A 25 inch suvey has been made of the earthwork, which although across a low spur, is not obviously in the Promontory Fort category. The natural slopes to the north and south do not provide an adequate defence, but may once have been bounded by marshy or dense vegetation. (2)
The possible promontory fort or cross dyke described above in (1-2) is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs and imagery derived from APGB height data during the Silchester Iron Age Environs Mapping Project. The earthwork consists of a single bank extending from north-west to south-east for a distance of 95 m. The bank measures up to 10 m in width. It is cut by a modern path and also by a trackway or boundary which may be older in date (see NRHE 1601223). Two shorter lengths of bank may be an extension to the south-eastern end of the earthwork. (4-6) |