Hengistbury Head hillfort
Hengistbury Head hillfort, Bournemouthcounty:
coords:
Dorset
SZ170908
otherwise: Hedenesburia, 1100-1135; Ednesbury, 1485-1509
HENGISTBURY HEAD, west arm of Christchurch Harbour
Old English 'fort of Heddin'. The same name is found in a document of 877 (12th century transcript) (BCS 544, S 1277), from Nursling, in the place name 'hedenesdene'. A continental relative also appears in the name of the Baltic island 'Hiddensee' for which there is Norse saga evidence. Renaissance antiquaries preferred 'Hengist' a relatively known quantity (1611 'Hengestbury heade').
- ancient monument, hillfort - Bournemouth Hundred - Dorset
Period - 1590s-1600s
tumuli, ditches, etc
sitefinds
HMCMS:A1988.5
