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Backbury Camp
Herefordshire, England ยท Atlas EN0003
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0003 (3)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Herefordshire
- Historic county
- Herefordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dormington
- National Grid reference
- SO 587389
- Latitude
- 52.04691
- Longitude
- -2.60365
- Altitude
- 225 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 1, SW 2, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North); Oblique (North); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast, south, and level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003534
- HER
- Herefordshire MHE411 (second identifier 908)
- National record
- record SO 53 NE 2; monument 110051
- Wikidata
- Q31114017
Sources
References
- Cooke, W.H. 1882. Collections towards the history and antiquities of the county of Herefordshire in continuation of Duncumb's History; Vol 3 Greytree Hundred. Book in Hereford Library. III.
- 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, 209-10, London: St Catherine Press.
- RCHME 1934. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, 1, 71-2, London: HMSO.
- Stanford, S. C. (ed.) 1976. Guide to Prehistoric and Roman Sites in Herefordshire. Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club Archaeological Research Section, 17-18.