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Brandon Camp
Herefordshire, England · Atlas EN0004
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0004 (4)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Herefordshire
- Historic county
- Herefordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Adforton
- National Grid reference
- SO 400724
- Latitude
- 52.34634
- Longitude
- -2.88224
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 4.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and hillslope
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, arable, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400 and AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, roundhouses, and rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (2012); Other (2015); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Excavation (1981-1985); Other (2002-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011016
- HER
- Herefordshire MHE818 (second identifier 1639)
- National record
- record SO 47 SW 2; monument 108810
- Wikidata
- Q31114037
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.
- Frere, S.S. 1987. Brandon Camp, Herefordshire, Britannia,18, 49-92.
- RCHME 1934. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, 3, NW, 3-4, London: HMSO.