More information : (Area centred at SZ 7315 9986) Tourner Bury (OE) Moat (OE) (1)
Tunorbury or Tournorbury is situated within 100 yards of the
shore, the ground all round being flat and on the N and S marshy.
The bank and ditch enclose a circular area of 8 1/2 acres. The
bank is 4 feet above ground level and 10 feet above the ditch,
which is wet except on the W where it is marshy. There is no
entrance except that of the modern road. Excavations have been
made but nothing dateable found. There is a slight bank on the
counterscarp. No evidence is known for the earth work being as
alleged, Saxon or Danish, and from its form, size and profile one
would certainly class it with the woodland ring-works. Listed
as 'Hill-top fortress'. (2)
Tournerbury or Tunorbery, on oval camp, 240 x 200 yards of
possibly IA date. 'Mr Trigg had two trenches dug across and others
at right angles' and found only two pieces of British pottery 'and'
remains of fires under the surrounding earthwork. (3)
Early ref called 'Tunorbury'. (4)
Ref in passing to 'Tourner Bury. (5)
Included in list. (6)
A univallate IA fort situated on low lying ground. To the north
and south is marshy ground which was probably tidal before the
construction of the sea-wall. No evidence regarding the name
was found. (7)
Excavated 11/59 under the direction of Mr J R Boyden. A trench
through the rampart revealed, at the outer edge, two Norman pots,
(probably strays) &, under the rampart itself, on the old surface
line, two tiny scraps of pottery, possibly Iron Age .
Further excavations are to take place in 1960. (8)
Two further sections dug by Richard Bradley in 1968 produced
fragments of four IA vessels on the land surface contemporary with
the rampart. (9)
Tourner Bury. an IA plateu fort.
Published 1/2500 survey revised. (10)
Tournerbury has some features in common with other small Hampshire
ringworks, but there is too little evidence to date it closely.
The function of the enclosure remains unknown. There is
evidence of re-use in the Roman period by associated pottery
of about 250-400 AD.
Graphical material omitted. (11)
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