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The Defences of the Iron Age Hill-Fort at Winklebury, Basingstoke, Hampshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

Reay Robertson-Mackay
Reay Robertson-Mackay
Affiliation:
Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments, Department of the Environment, London
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This report should be read in conjunction with the report on the excavations in the interior of the fort (previous paper in these Proceedings).

The site of the hill-fort lies on the north side of the North Downs Trackway (National Grid Reference SU/614528). It is also on the southern edge of the Lower Thames valley. In this area there is a gap through the Hampshire Downs which connects the Thames valley with that of the River Test.

The derivation of the place name Winklebury is not entirely clear. Medieval spellings, e.g. Wiltenischebury, c. 1290; Wyltenysshbury, 1407; Wynnyshbery and Wynlysbery, 1443, suggest that the name may be of Anglo-Saxon derivation and mean the ‘fort or stronghold of the people of Wilton’, i.e. the fort owned, occupied or built by the Wiltshiremen. However, Wiltonish occurs as a surname in Romsey in the 1289 Assize Rolls, in Walter le Wyltenysshe, and thus the site name may have evolved in the 13th century through associations with this family.

Building development threatened the north side of the hill-fort in 1959. Excavations were accordingly carried out by the Ancient Monuments Inspectorate of the then Ministry of Works (now the Department of the Environment), under the direction of the writer in July and August of that year.

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Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 43 , December 1977 , pp. 131 - 154
Copyright
Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1977

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