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Bach Camp
Herefordshire, England ยท Atlas EN0002
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0002 (2)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Herefordshire
- Historic county
- Herefordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kimbolton
- National Grid reference
- SO 547602
- Latitude
- 52.23808
- Longitude
- -2.66482
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 4.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, berm, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South); Simple Gap (North west); Hornwork (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (2012); Other (2002-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1007316
- HER
- Herefordshire MHE52 (second identifier 344)
- National record
- record SO 56 SW 3; monument 110884
- Wikidata
- Q31113996
Sources
References
- Dorling, P. and Wigley, A. 2012. Assessment of the archaeological and conservation status of major later prehistoric enclosures in Herefordshire and Shropshire, EH PNUM, Version 3.2, Hereford and Shrewsbury: Herefordshire Council/Shropshire Council.
- Page, W. ed. 1908.The Victoria County History of the County of Herefordshire, 1, 214-15, London: St Catherine Press.
- RCHME 1934. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, 3, 79, London: HMSO.