Monument record MDO4809 - Hod Hill, Stourpaine

An Iron Age hillfort with multiple ramparts forming a roughly square enclosure. The enclosed area is 54 acres. There are steep slopes on three sides, and a less steep slope to the south, where the ramparts are bigger. Parts of the interior have been ploughed in the past; finds recovered can be seen in the Durden Collection in the British Museum. Excavations by Sir Ian Richmond (1951 to 1958) revealed a sequence of defences on the same alignment as the surviving earthworks. It had long been assumed that the ploughing of parts of the interior had destroyed or very badly damaged the remains of settlement in these areas. However, recent geophysical survey by David Stewart has revealed a detailed layout of features such as hut circles, pits and trackways throughout the fort. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

Hod Hill: an Iron Age hillfort of massive proportions occupying the summit of a steep sided plateau above the River Stour. It has the unique distinction of having a Roman Fort located within its NW corner which in part utilises the defences.

The Iron Age fort is bivallate except on the steeper western slope where it is univallate. There are two entrances, both inturned, one at the NE corner known as the Steepleton Gate, the other at the western end of the S rampart. The former has a massive hornwork, the latter an extra line of rampart and ditch. Excavations (Boyd Dawkins <3> and Richmond <12>) have indicated at least three phases of construction commencing with a box rampart. Pottery ranges through Iron Age 'A,B,C' and Maiden Castle 'B': other finds include currency bars and some 40 Durotrigian and possibly Durotrigian gold and silver coins.
Jrs 50 to 57 and pps 23 1957 222-3

The fort fell very early in the Roman invasion (there is evidence of assault by ballista) and the site was utilised in part for a Roman Fort. This encloses some 4.5ha and was of earth with timber buildings; it housed a mixed garrison of legionaries and auxiliaries.

On the evidence of coins and pottery the occupation was firmly Claudian but short (43-51 AD). The majority of the finds are in the British Museum.

An Iron Age hillfort and Roman Fort generally as described above; both in good condition.1:2500 survey revised. <10>

Full report on early finds from Hod Hill in the Durden Collection (BM) and on Richmond's excavation 1951-8. <11>

Detailed report of Hod Hill (totally enclosing an area of 54 acres). An additional unfinished Iron Age outwork, enclosing 1 1/2 acres, lies at the NW corner of the fort. This feature extended the defences, but there was no access to the interior of the hill fort. A low lynchet bisected the earthwork, perhaps dividing gardens associated with the Roman garrison. Plan 1 (enlargement of RCHM plan to 1:2500 scale) and Plan 2. <13>

DUNUM - Probably the Roman fort at Hod Hill. <14>

ST 857 106. Hod Hill. Listed in gazetteer as a multivallate hillfort covering 22ha. <15>

A re-appraisal of the ballistraria at Hod Hill suggests that Richmond's interpretation is incorrect, as this form of defence only became common in the later C3rd, and that the types of artillery in use during the life of the Roman fort did not require special platforms. <16>

Re-interpretaion of the pre-Flavian and Claudian periods at Hod Hill. <18>

<1> Gomme G L (ed ), 1844, Romano-British remains, parts 1 and 2 (Article in serial). SWX9212.

<2> Gomme, G L, 1886, Archaeology: A classified collection of the chief contents of “The Gentleman’s Magazine” from 1731-1868. Volume 2. (Monograph). SDO9822.

<3> Boyd-Dawkins, W, 1900, 'The Exploration of Hod Hill, near Blandford, Dorset, in 1897'; The Archaeological Journal (Article in serial). SDO16985.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25 inch scale map, 1901 (Map). SDO18020.

ST 85651066 Camp (NR) ST 85491080 ROMAN CAMP (R)

<5> Crawford, O G S and Keiller, A, 1928, Wessex from the Air, 36-41 (Monograph). SDO12591.

<6> Brailsford, J W, 1950, Interim Report on Preliminary Excavations at Hod Hill, 1949; Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 41-50 (Article in serial). SDO14252.

<7> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1952, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1951, 105 (Serial). SDO51.

‘In September the British Museum’s excavations at Hod Hill, of which a preliminary account was published in Vol. 71 of the Proceedings, were resumed under the direction of Professor I. A. Richmond with the assistance of Mr. J. W. Brailsford and Miss Marion Wilson. A section was begun across the defences of the Iron Age camp, and the Roman fort which occupies its north-west corner was examined. Professor I. A. Richmond, F.S.A., has kindly sent the following report on the preliminary work on the Roman fort:-
“… The east gate (porta praetoria) was revealed as of timber, carried upon uprights as foot square, packed firmly in large pits and disposed so as to form a double portal recessed between a pair of flanking towers. The south portal and tower had been laid out on top of a circular Iron Age hut, walled in wattle-and-daub and surrounded by a drainage ditch. It had been deliberately demolished to make way for the gate. …”.’

<8> Brailsford, J W, and Richmond, I A, 1952, British Museum Excavations at Hod Hill, Dorset. British Museum Quarterly 17 (3), 49-50 (Article in serial). SDO20448.

<9> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1956, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1954, 95-96 (Serial). SDO54.

<10> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 08-JAN-62 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<11> Brailsford, J W, 1962, Hod Hill. Antiquities from Hod Hill in the Durden Collection. Volume 1 (Monograph). SDO14258.

<12> Richmond, I, 1968, Hod Hill. Excavations carried out between 1951 and 1958 for the Trustees of the British Museum (Monograph). SDO14257.

<13> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 263-265 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(11) HOD HILL IRON AGE HILL-FORT AND ROMAN FORT (856107). In area the hill-fort is the largest in Dorset, its multiple ramparts enclosing 54 acres. It occupies the domed top of an isolated chalk hill rising to 471 ft. above O.D. at the N.W., where the later Roman fort was built in the angle of the Iron Age earthwork. Except on the S. there are steep slopes on all sides, particularly on the W. where the ground falls abruptly to the R. Stour. The interior of the hill-fort was formerly covered with Iron Age occupation remains, of which some 7½ acres survive in the S.E. quarter (Plate 198 and folding plan in pocket at back of volume); the rest has been destroyed, mostly by cultivation, since the mid 19th century. Ploughing has produced many finds, notably those in the Henry Durden collection in the British Museum (J. W. Brailsford, Hod Hill I, 1962). Sir William Boyd-Dawkins dug earthen circles and pits in 1900 (Arch. J. LVII (1900), 52–68) and Sir Ian Richmond directed excavations for the British Museum from 1951 to 1958. These researches indicated a sequence of defences on the same alignment from a late Iron Age 'A' boxed rampart to the Iron Age 'C' remains which are still seen. The tested occupation remains extend from an Iron Age 'A/B' phase down to the storming of the hill-fort by the Romans in A.D. 44 (I. A. Richmond, Hod Hill II (1968)).
The Iron Age Hill-fort (Plate 198) comprises two ramparts with an outer counterscarp bank on the N., E. and S., and a single rampart and ditch with a counterscarp bank on the W. On the N. and E. the defences measure 140 ft. to 150 ft. across, overall, with a main inner rampart up to 30 ft. high above its ditch bottom. On the S., where the external slope is less steep, the defences are bigger and measure up to 180 ft. across, with a main rampart 36 ft. high. The relatively slight defences on the W. are compensated by the very steep natural slope falling to the river. On the N. side of the hill-fort is a natural shelf above a steep fall; an unfinished N.W. outwork extends the defences to dominate this shelf at its widest point, but it ends 150 ft. short of the fairly sharp natural shoulder of the slope. There is no access to this outwork from the hill-fort interior. The enclosed area of 1½ acres is bisected by a low lynchet, perhaps dividing gardens associated with the Roman garrison. E. of this outwork there has been much disturbance, particularly by quarrying. On the S. and E. slopes of the hill are the remains of strip lynchets and later ploughing.
Of the two Iron Age entrances, to N.E. and S.W., only that to the N.E., the Stepleton Gate, has been examined by excavation. Some form of entrance may have existed here in the initial Iron Age 'A' phase but the present entrance represents an insertion which involved the building of a causeway across the original Iron Age 'A' ditch, and ultimately involved the construction of a hornwork 220 ft. long in the final Iron Age 'C' phase. The hornwork channelled all approach into an enfiladed position, after which entry was between inturned arms which extended back 60 ft. from the main rampart. The S.W. gate also has inturned arms but here the outwork, unfinished, consists of the outer (counterscarp) bank of the hill-fort, splayed away from the main defences; it has a causewayed and presumably unfinished outer ditch. The Hanford Gate at the N.W. angle of the hill-fort is a Roman insertion and the Ashfield Gate in the middle of the E. side is also Roman. The Home Gate on the S.E. is mediaeval or later; the lane leading to it from Stourpaine village is named 'Hod Drove' on the Tithe Map of 1841.
An almost continuous line of quarry pits, to provide additional material for the defences, lies everywhere behind the inner rampart, except along most of the W. side and a small part of the S. side. The pits cover some 6 acres and vary much in form and size; many of them are about 5 ft. deep. There are at least two phases of pit digging, one associated with an extension of the inner rampart in the Iron Age 'A/B' phase, and the other associated with the extension in the Iron Age 'C' phase.
The interior of the hill-fort was eventually covered by remains of Iron Age settlement, varying in type and density; they include hut circles, some with annexes and 'yards', 'working platforms', pits, mounds, and boundary banks and scarps. All the hut remains but one, No. 60, are circular. Hexagonal enclosure No. 36, which also contains a hut circle, is the only complete angular enclosure. In the 7½ unploughed acres that could be planned in detail there were forty-nine embanked circles or circular platforms that are likely to have been hut sites; a further sixteen hut sites might have existed. Some of the hut sites clearly cut into others, representing a sequence and also suggesting that conditions were crowded. A count of probable hut circles visible on various air photographs of the ploughed areas indicates a reasonable minimum for the whole hill-fort of about two hundred. The well established huts are represented by circles, generally defined by low banks about 9 ft. across, with a shallow outer ditch 6 ft. or so across, both broken by a simple gap entrance on the S.E. side. The circles vary in diameter from 22 ft. to 36 ft., measured from crest to crest of the banks; many are about 30 ft. across.
In the unploughed area, some of the hut circles have annexes marked by hook-shaped enclosures with ditches, running out from the parent circles. Two of these are associated with other features. Hut No. 168, a circle with an annexe on the N.E., has to the S. of it an open area of about 1/8 acre bounded by a low scarp. S. of this is Hut No. 121, with an annexe on the S. containing two small pits. Immediately E. of Hut No. 121 a low scarp runs S.W.-N.E.; beyond lies a notable concentration of big storage pits. N. of the hut are three curved ditch or palisade lines, and W. of it, for 120 ft., is an open area, unusually clear of remains, as has been confirmed by proton-magnetometer. To the S. of this area is an unusual circle, 30 ft. across and defined by a narrow ditch or palisade trench, broken by opposed openings to W. and E. A third hut with an annexe, No. 56, fully excavated by Richmond, was slightly ovoid in plan and measured 19½ ft. by 17½ ft. internally; it yielded a substantial amount of Iron Age 'C' pottery, and a hoard of 117 sling-stones was found near the entrance. The annexe contained an area of heavily trampled subsoil, perhaps indicative of tethered animals, and post-holes which suggested a rough shelter. Hut No. 60, a sub-rectangular hut measuring 28 ft. by 18 ft. internally, had an annexe associated with a storage pit while the hut itself yielded horse trappings from near the entrance, one and a half 'currency-bars' and Iron Age 'Second B' pottery; the trench around the back of the hut and its annexe contained a palisade. Hut No. 43 had a small external enclosure at the N.W. and also was apparently defined by a palisade; it yielded both 'B' and 'C' pottery, iron sickles and a hoard of 218 sling-stones. The hexagonal enclosure No. 36 had a palisade trench with an entrance at the S.W., to the N. of pit No. 38. In the N.E. corner of the enclosure a ditch defined a hut circle 30 ft. across with an entrance on the S.E.; it yielded Iron Age 'C' pottery, often matching fragments that were found in the surrounding enclosure. This pottery is comparable with that from Hut No. 37, which impinges upon the palisade of the enclosure and must be regarded as an extension of the same complex. The hut within No. 36 and Hut No. 43 had hearths; Huts Nos. 37, 56 and 60 had none.
The importance of enclosure No. 36 is suggested by the roadway which, as air photographs show, apparently led to it from the Stepleton Gate. The road, one of two or possibly three from the Stepleton Gate, all built over (see Plate 198), had already been put out of use in Iron Age times. The concentration of ballista bolts found in Hut No. 37 and also ranging over the enclosure indicates the importance of the area as a Roman target.
In the unploughed area one hundred major pits are traceable. Some of them are marked by depressions as much as 2½ ft. below the surface of the ground. Not all of them were for food storage, as the puddling pit for clay noted below clearly shows. The proportion of pits to huts (say 2:1) is very small indeed. Some pits lie inside huts (e.g. No. 107) and these are usually on the side opposite the entrance, perhaps indicating that they belonged to those huts. Pits examined by excavation included No. 60c, used twice, No. 38, used for puddling clay as were two others in the Roman fort area, No. 17 and Nos. 15a, b and c. The last mentioned closely resemble Boyd-Dawkins's site No. 6, which also contained 3 pits, in one of which were found burials. Pit No. 15a produced Iron Age 'A' and 'B' pottery, No. 15b produced burials of 'A/B' date and No. 15c produced 'B' pottery and another burial. There are a number of working platforms and enclosures and it is clear that the quarry ditches were also extensively used as working areas. Working platforms lay to the E. of the twin shallow curves of a palisade which sheltered them from the prevailing wind; on excavation they yielded a bone weaving-comb, an iron bucket handle, the hook and socket of a sickle, and also Iron Age 'C' pottery.
None of the mounds has yet been dug but some of them are probably composed of heaps of refuse or perhaps of unused chalk from pits, as on site 15. The long banks are nowhere found complete; the slight bank and ditch which runs N.E. from the gap in the quarry pits on the S. side is destroyed, after 250 ft., in heavily ploughed ground. A similar feature, cut by later pits, can be seen on air photographs in the N.E. quarter of the hill, running for 200 ft. or so, almost parallel with the N. defences; there are also traces of other similar banks. The associations noted suggest a relatively early date, and their form suggests an analogy with the banks which divide the interior of Eggardon hill-fort (Dorset I, Askerswell (12)).
The Roman attack appears to have been limited to a bombardment of enclosure No. 36 with ballista-bolts; the bolts were confined to its immediate environment. There is no evidence of fighting at the gates, as at Maiden Castle. The attack was followed by the evacuation of the hill-fort and by the demolition of the huts.’

<14> Rivet, A L F, and Smith, C, 1979, The Place-Names of Roman Britain, 344 (Monograph). SDO20451.

<15> Hogg, A H A, 1979, British hillforts: an index, 205 (Monograph). SDO17414.

<16> Campbell, D B, 1984, Ballistaria in first to mid-third century Britain: a reappraisal. Britannia 15, 75-84 (Article in serial). SDO20449.

<17> Manning, W H, 1985, Catalogue of Romano-British Iron Tools, Fittings and Weapons in the British Museum (Monograph). SDO16650.

<18> Maxfield, Valerie A, 1986, Pre-Flavian Forts and their Garrisons. Britannia 17, 60, 65, 66 (Article in serial). SDO20450.

<19> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1998, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1997, 175 (Serial). SDO12420.

‘WATER PIPE TRENCH: HOD HILL, STOURPAINE
A new water pipe was laid up from the north-west edge of Stourpaine village (ST 8595 0965) across two arable fields to the south side of the south-west corner of the hillfort (ST 8535 1045). The trench was 0.3m wide and 0.7m deep and generally cut through deep deposits of colluvial soils. The watching brief recorded the cross-sections of three strip lynchets which had been largely obscured by ploughsoil. These were located near the centre of the north-western of the two arable fields ST 8645 1030. The only finds were a piece of medieval bottle glass and occasional fragments of burnt flint. The lynchets belong to the open fields of Stourpaine enclosed in 1841 (RCHM 1970, 263).’

<20> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 2002, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 2001, 125 (Serial). SDO11551.

<21> Stewart, D, 2007, A Geophysical Survey at Hod Hill, Stourpaine, Dorset. Supplementary Study (Unpublished document). SDO16979.

<22> Stewart, D A, 2009, Hod Hill: "Too much wasted by cultivation for definite survey'; Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society (Article in serial). SDO14259.

<23> Historic England, Historic England Archive (Index). SDO14738.

Object Number Object Title Scope And Content
8510/45/205 OBLIQUE AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH ALSO ROMAN HILLFORT
8510/46/42 OBLIQUE AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH ALSO ROMAN HILLFORT
8510/51/47 OBLIQUE AERIAL PHOTGRAPH ALSO ROMAN HILLFORT
881745 RCHME: Hod Hill Iron Age Hillfort, Dorset. Plan of hillfort with contours given.
881755 RCHME: Hod Hill, The Roman Fort, Dorset. Plan of building layout with required scale adjustments added.
881767 RCHME: Hod Hill, Steepleton Gate, Dorset. Portion of fort ramparts with areas marked A - D.
881771 RCHME: Hod Hill, Steepleton Gate, Dorset. Faded working drawing, plan of earthworks.
881777 RCHME: Hod Hill, East Gate, Dorset. Plan of earthworks with later amendments.
881793 RCHME: Hod Hill, Hanford Gate, Dorset. Annotated plan of earthwork gate area.
881798 RCHME: Hod Hill, Dorset. Three profiles marked A-B, C-D, E-F.
881802 RCHME: Hod Hill, West Gate, Dorset. 3 profiles marked A-B, C-D, E-F
881808 RCHME: Hod Hill, Dorset. Document sized, two profiles, A-B, C-D.
881811 RCHME: Hod Hill, Dorset. Section A-B
881816 RCHME: Hod Hill, Dorset. Three profiles, relating to earthworks in the region of Steepleton Gate.
881819 RCHME: Hod Hill, Dorset. Two profiles marked N-O, P-Q.
881824 RCHME: Hod Hill, Dorset. Three annotated profiles with heights and angles given.
881872 RCHME: Earthworks on Hod and Hambledon Hill, Dorset
Covers the parishes of Stourpaine, Iwerne Courtney and Hanford.Bibliographic References : 1) The Hambledon/Hod complex.2) Pt 1 for Hambledon, pt 2 for Hod.
883033 RCHME: Hod Hill, Remains of Settlement in the Unploughed Area, Dorset. Annotated plan showing earthworks with original stick-down annotations.
883107 RCHME: Hod Hill, Dorset. Untitled working drawing with annotations.
883156 RCHME: Hod Hill, Dorset. Untitled, annotated working drawing.
883254 RCHME: Hod Hill, Dorset. Rough working drawing with annnotations.
883264 RCHME: Hod Hill, Dorset. Untitled plan with annotations
883267 RCHME: Hod Hill, Dorset. Supplemental working drawing with annotations.
883273 RCHME: Hod Hill, Dorset. Untitled working drawing with features numbered 80, 81.
883276 RCHME: Hod Hill, Dorset. Untitled plan with annotations and features marked 60, 60a.
883375 RCHME: Hod Hill, Dorset. Untitled plan featuring enclosure numbered 70.
883378 RCHME: Hod Hill, Dorset. Faded plan showing edge of quarry pit.
883386 RCHME: Hod Hill, Dorset. Untitled plan showing numbered enclosures.
883396 RCHME: Hod Hill, Dorset. Untitled plan.
883399 RCHME: Hod Hill, Dorset. Untitled pencil plan showing earthworks.
883420 RCHME: Hod Hill, Dorset. Plan of earthworks.
883598 RCHME: Hod Hill, Dorset. Untitled plan.
883601 RCHME: Hod Hill, Dorset. Plan of earthworks.
883985 RCHME: Hod Hill, Earthworks, Dorset. Faded plan with annotations.
883991 RCHME: Hod Hill, Earthworks, Dorset. Narrow strip of paper with fading plan .
883999 RCHME: Hod Hill, Earthworks, Dorset. Pencil plan showing earthworks.
884003 RCHME: Hod Hill, Earthworks, Dorset. Faded pencil plan showing earthworks.
884010 RCHME: Hod Hill, Earthworks, Dorset
884015 RCHME: Hod Hill, Earthworks, Dorset. Annotated plan.
884021 RCHME: Hod Hill, Earthworks, Dorset
884032 RCHME: Hod Hill, Earthworks and Land Use, Dorset
884057 RCHME: Hod Hill, Earthworks, Dorset. Plan with area sectioned off. Inscription: Box D 1B
884100 RCHME: Hod Hill, Earthworks, Dorset. Detailed, well annotated plan in bold pencil. Inscription: Box D2A
884127 RCHME: Hod Hill, Earthworks, Dorset. Inscription: Box D1A
884137 RCHME: Hod Hill, Earthworks, Dorset. Plan with inset detail. Inscription: Box DB2
BB71/00100 PLAN OF IA SETTLEMENT IN SOUTH-EAST CORNER OF HILLFORT
BB71/03488 PLAN OF ROMAN FORT, AFTER I.A.RICHMOND
BB72/03323 PLAN OF IA HILLFORT AND ROMAN FORT
BB72/03324 PLAN SHOWING REMAINS OF SETTLEMENT IN UNPLOUGHED AREA OF SITE
BB76/05105 STEEPLETON GATE - EARLY STAGE, NORTH SIDE
BB76/05106 SOUTH HUT, FILLING OF HUT DITCH
BB76/05107 JUNCTION OF NORTH COMPOUND PALISADE AND NORTH HUT DITCH
BB76/05109 STEEPLETON GATE - BACK OF RAMPART, NORTH SIDE
BB76/05110 STEEPLETON GATE - BACK OF RAMPART, NORTH SIDE
BB76/05111 STEEPLETON GATE - BACK OF RAMPART, NORTH SIDE
BB76/05112 SOUTH GATE OF ROMAN FORT. EAST SIDE - FRONT POST-HOLES
BB76/05113 NORTH-WEST GATE, NORTH-EATS SIDE
BB76/05114 IA CLAY PIT
BB76/05115 UNIDENTIFIED
BB76/05116 UNIDENTIFIED
BB76/05117 REPAIRS AT THE BARRACK WEST OF THE GRANARY NEAR THE WEST WALL
BB76/05118 UNIDENTIFIED
BB76/05119 STEEPLETON GATE - REVETMENT TRENCH, NORTH SIDE OF GATE
BB76/05120 STEEPLETON GATE - VIEW OF SOUTH REVETMENT OF NORTH INTURN
BB76/05121 NORTH-WEST GATE, EARLY DITCH
BB76/05122 BALLISTARIUM AND ASCENSUS
BB76/05123 ENTRANCE TO OFFICER'S QUARTERS, BARRACK I, SOUTH-WEST QUADRANT
BB76/05124 EXTRA DITCH AT SOUTH-EAST ANGLE
BB76/05125 NORTH-WEST PANORAMA
BB76/05126 BALLISTARIUM AND RAMPART
BB76/05127 IA HUT - BURNT WOOD
BB76/05128 STEEPLETON GATE - BACK OF RAMPART
BB76/05129 STEEPLETON GATE - BACK OF RAMPART, NORTH SIDE OF GATE
BB76/05130 STEEPLETON GATE - FRONT EXTENSION
BB76/05131 STEEPLETON GATE - NORTH-EAST CORNER, FRONT REVETMENT
BB76/05132 NORTH-WEST GATE - REAR POST-HOLE
BB76/05133 IA HILLFORT, NORTH RAMPART
BB76/05134 NORTH-WEST GATE - OUTER POST-HOLE, NORTH-EAST SIDE
BB76/05135 SOUTH GATE OF ROMAN FORT, WEST SIDE
BB76/05136 EVIDENCE OF RE-BUILDING
BB76/05137 SOUTH RAMPART - PIT
BB76/05138 NORTH-WEST GATE, NORTH-EAST SIDE
BB76/05139 IA CLAY PIT
BB76/05140 EAST RANGE - WEST COMMANDANT'S HOUSE
BB76/05141 UNIDENTIFIED
BB76/05142 ROMAN EAST DITCHES, LOOKING NORTH
BB76/05143 LARGER COMMANDANT'S HOUSE - POST-HOLE AT NORTH END
BB76/05144 PRINCIPIA EAST WALL - JUNCTION OF SOUTH COLONNADE
BB76/05145 BACK OF NORTH IA RAMPART
BB76/05146 ENTRANCE TO OFFICER'S QUARTERS, BARRACK I, SOUTH-WEST QUADRANT
BB76/05147 SOUTH GATE OF ROMAN FORT. WEST SIDE, REAR POST-HOLE
BB76/05148 GRANARY POST-HOLES - GENERAL VIEW
BB76/05149 EAST DITCH
BB76/05150 UNIDENTIFIED
BB76/05151 POST-HOLE AT JUNCTION, EAST END OF SOUTH BARRACK, SOUTH-WEST QUADRANT
BB76/05152 SOUTH-EAST ANGLE, DITCH
BB76/05153 PRINCIPIA, EAST FRONT
BB76/05154 IA NORTH RAMPART - POST-HOLES AT INNER EDGE
BB76/05155 EXTRA DITCH, SOUTH-EAST ANGLE
BB76/05156 IA NORTH RAMPART - POST-HOLES AT REAR
BB76/05157 SOUTH GATE
BB76/05158 UNIDENTIFIED
BB76/05159 SOUTH-EAST ANGLE
BB76/05160 SOUTH GATE OF ROMAN FORT
BB76/05161 SOUTH BARRACK, SOUTH-WEST QUADRANT. PIT AT EAST END OFFICER'S QUARTERS
BB76/05162 SOUTH-EAST ANGLE OF ROMAN FORT
BB76/05163 SOUTH GATE, EAST SIDE - REAR POST-HOLE AND PIT
BB76/05164 RUBBISH PIT, BARRACK I, SOUTH-WEST QUADRANT
BB76/05165 FILLING OF BEDDING TRENCH - BARRACK I, SOUTH WALL, SOUTH-WEST QUADRANT
BB76/05166 NORTH-WEST CORNER - PRINCIPIA - NORTH WALL IN SECTION
BB76/05167 LATRINE PIT, HOUSE I, SOUTH-EAST QUADRANT. SECTION OF FILLING
BB76/05168 IA INNER RAMPART - CENTRE VIEW OF INNER HALF - LOOKING NORTH
BB76/05169 IA INNER RAMPART, OUTER TIMBER SLOT, LOOKING SOUTH
BB76/05170 OUTER IA RAMPART, FRONT, LOOKING NORTH
BB76/05171 INNER IA RAMPART, FRONT, LOOKING NORTH
BB76/05172 INNER IA RAMPART - VIEW OF CENTRE OF BACK HALF, LOOKING NORTH
BB76/05173 INNER IA RAMPART, BACK, LOOKING NORTH
BB76/05174 INNER IA RAMPART - VIEW OF CENTRE OF FRONT HALF, LOOKING NORTH
BB76/05175 INNER IA RAMPART - VIEW OF CENTRE OF BACK HALF, LOOKING NORTH
BB76/05176 INNER IA RAMPART - BACK OF SECTION, LOOKING NORTH
BB76/05177 INNER IA RAMPART - CENTRE, LOOKING SOUTH
BB76/05178 INNER IA RAMPART LOOKING SOUTH
BB76/05179 INNER IA RAMPART LOOKING SOUTH
BB76/05180 OUTER IA DITCH LOOKING NORTH-WEST
BB76/05181 SECTION THROUGH IA RAMPART LOOKING WEST
BB76/05225 DITCH PROFILES
BB76/05226 PLAN OF ROMAN FORT IN NORTH-WEST CORNER OF HILLFORT
CC71/00027 PLAN OF IA HILLFORT AND ROMAN FORT
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CC72/01368 SOUTH FACE OF INWARD RAMPART NORTH OF STEEPLETON GATE
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CC72/01369 SOUTH FACE OF INWARD RAMPART NORTH OF STEEPLETON GATE MIDDLE SECTION
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CC72/01370 SOUTH FACE OF INWARD RAMPART N OF STEEPLETON GATE, WEST END
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CC72/01371 SOUTH FACE OF INWARD RAMPART N OF STEEPLETON GATE, EAST END
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CC72/01372 PLAN OF EARTHWORKS OUTSIDE HANFORD GATE
CC72/01373 PLAN OF SOUTH-WEST GATE AND SURROUNDING EARTHWORKS
CC72/01374 PLAN OF STEEPLETON GATE
CC75/00265 BIRDSEYE VIEW OF HOD HILL AND HAMBLEDON HILL FROM A WATERCOLOUR BY HEYWOOD SUMNER
DD74/00007 PLAN OF IA HILLFORT AND ROMAN FORT - SECTION II, EAST HALF
DD74/00008 PLAN OF IA HILLFORT AND ROMAN FORT - SECTION I, WEST HALF
GRS01 Grimes, W F: Excavation Archive
Excavation archive containing material related to a number of sites in Dorset, including Hod Hill and Maiden Castle Farm, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. Some of the material has been published in Grimes, W.F. "Excavations on Defence Sites 1939-1945" Ministry of Works, Archaeology Report No.3, 1960. Recent additions to the collection (16/11/94) take the form of 5 scrap-books containing newspaper cuttings. Four of the books have cuttings relating to the Temple of Mithras and one has more general information. Separate acquisition of publication related artwork and photography for "Excavations on Defence Sites 1939-1945" Ministry of Works, Archaeology Report No.3, 1960.
P04986 EROSION AT NORTH-WEST ENTRANCE, HANFORD GATE, VIEW SOUTH
P04987 EROSION ON NORTH RAMPART, VIEW SOUTH-EAST
P04988 EROSION ON NORTH RAMPART, VIEW SOUTH-EAST
P04989 EROSION ON NORTH RAMPART, VIEW SOUTH-EAST
P04990 EROSION ON NORTH RAMPART, VIEW SOUTH-EAST
P04991 EROSION ON NORTH SIDE OF STEEPLETON GATE, VIEW SOUTH
P04992 EROSION ON RAMPART IN NORTH-WEST CORNER, VIEW SOUTH-EAST
P04993 EROSION ON NORTH RAMPART, VIEW SOUTH-EAST
P04994 EROSION ON NORTH RAMPART, SOUTH-EAST
P04995 EROSION ON NORTH RAMPART, VIEW SOUTH-EAST
P04996 EROSION ON NORTH RAMPART, VIEW SOUTH-EAST
P04997 EROSION ON NORTH RAMPART, VIEW SOUTH-EAST
P04998 EROSION ON NORTH RAMPART, VIEW SOUTH-EAST
P04999 EROSION ON NORTH RAMPART, VIEW SOUTH-EAST
P11001 EROSION AT NORTH-WEST ENTRANCE, HANFORD GATE, VIEW NORTH
P11002 EROSION ON RAMPART, SOUTH SIDE OF HANFORD GATE, VIEW NE
P11003 EROSION ON SOUTH RAMPART, WEST OF HOME GATE, VIEW NORTH
P11004 EROSION OF EAST RAMPART, NORTH OF ASHFIELD GATE, VIEW NORTH
P11005 PLAN OF ROMAN FORT IN NORTH-WEST CORNER OF HILLFORT AFTER I.A.RICHMOND. Original negative held by: UNKNOW

<23> Lock, G, and Ralston, I, 2017, Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland [ONLINE], EN3595 (Digital archive). SDO17130.

<24> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/096 RCHME Inventory: Dorset III (Central) (Unpublished document). SDO17384.

<25> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206122 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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