St Catherine's Hill hillfort
St Catherine's Hill hillfort, Winchestercounty:
coords:
Hampshire
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otherwise: monte sancte Katerine, 1208
ST CATHERINE'S HILL, hill and fort SE of Winchester
There was a medieval chapel on the hill dedicated to St Catherine. However names of this type are always suspicious; does the dedication cloak, and canonize, an earlier place name? 'St Ann's Hill' above Allington (Wiltshire) was earlier 'Tan Hill'. Cf also CATHERINGTON.
This name recurs in Hurn, but the earlier records testify to a ford (1316 'Catelineford').
The place is described in text Cox 1738
- hillfort - Winchester parish: - Hampshire
On St. Katherine's Hill, near it, is a Camp with single Work, and single Graffe, neither exactly round nor square but, according to the Ground of the Hill.
- ancient monument, hillfort - Fawley Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
