Sir Richard Colt Hoare, William Cunnington, Petrie, Grinsell
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Knook Castle is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort on Knook Down, near the village of Knook in Wiltshire, England, but largely within the civil parish of Upton Lovell. It has also been interpreted as a defensive cattle enclosure associated with nearby Romano-British settlements. It is roughly rectangular in plan with a single entrance on the south/south-east side, but with a later break in the wall on the western side.[1] The site is a scheduled monument.[2]
John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–1872) described Knook Castle as follows:
Knook Castle is an ancient single ditched entrenchment, of about 2 acres; is supposed to have been originally a British village, and afterwards a Roman summer camp; and has yielded Roman coins. Traces of another ancient British village are to the N. "The site of these villages", says Sir R. Hoare, "is decidedly marked by great cavities and a black soil; and the attentive eye may easily trace out the lines of houses and the streets, or rather the hollow ways, conducting to them. Numerous tumuli and barrows are in the neighbourhood."[3]
3D view of the digital terrain model
The site and surrounding downs are easily accessible by public footpath, with the Imber Range perimeter path[4] running east to west immediately to the north of the site. Further to the north lies Imber Range, one of the military firing ranges of Salisbury Plain.
^"English heritage pastscape entry for Knook Castle". Archived from the original on 19 February 2015. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
^Historic England. "Knook Castle hillfort and associated prehistoric and Romano-British landscape (1010207)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
^Knook at visionofbritain.org.uk
^Imber Range perimeter path map http://www.ldwa.org.uk/ldp/members/show_path_map.php?path_name=Imber+Range+Perimeter+Path Archived 12 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine
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