DRAGON HILL

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A large circular flat-topped mound about 10 metres high with much chalk digging around the base. It is situated below the top of a chalk scarp and is thought to be a natural feature. No earthworks have been identified. Romano British and Iron Age coins and pottery have been found.

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[Name SU 3008 8695] Dragon Hill [T.I.]
Roman Coins found [T.I.] (1)

Dragon Hill, on the Uffington/Woolstone parish boundary is
"A very large circular mound which may or may not be artificial. It has been known as Uffington Castle [Huntingford (3) says this is not so, the name having always been applied to the nearby Iron Age hill-fort - SU 28 NE 6] a name that supports one theory - that it is a Norman castle-mound. Roman coins have been found on the site ". (2)

E. Martin Atkins who excavated the mound circa 1852 concluded that it was natural. (3-5)

Dragon Hill is a large circular flat-topped mound about 10 metres high with much chalk digging around the base. Its position below the top of a chalk scarp is unlikely to be that of a castle mound and it is probably only a chalk outlier. No artificial works (ditch or ramparts) are apparent at the foot of the mound and the top appears entirely natural.

No information could be obtained locally about the Roman coins referred to by authority (2). (6)

SU 301871 Four Iron Age sherds have been found on Dragon Hill (Acc 308/65: 184/67), two of them donated by P H Crampton: he also donated a Roman colour-coated sherd and a rim sherd (Acc 94/65: 313/65). Another colour-coated sherd was picked up on the SE corner ofthe hill at -SU 301868. (Acc 134/67).

A coin of Constantine II (AE), was also found on Dragon Hill by Master R Dunkley (Acc 262/65). (7)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1960

( 2) Berkshire Archaeological Society The Berkshire archaeological journal

(L.V.Grinsell) 40, 1936 Page(s)24

( 3) Berkshire Archaeological Society The Berkshire archaeological journal

(G.W.B. Huntingford) Page(s)166-7, 170

( 4) Transactions of the Newbury District Field Club

1, 1870 Page(s)182

( 5) edited by P H Ditchfield and William Page 1906 The Victoria history of Berkshire, volume one

The Victoria history of the counties of England Page(s)215

( 6) Field Investigators Comments

F1 JP 21-NOV-63

( 7) Berkshire Archaeological Society The Berkshire archaeological journal

(Reading Museum) 62, 1965-6 Page(s)72, 74

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