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Credenhill Camp
Herefordshire, England · Atlas EN0011
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0011 (11)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Herefordshire
- Historic county
- Herefordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Credenhill
- National Grid reference
- SO 451446
- Latitude
- 52.09697
- Longitude
- -2.80286
- Altitude
- 210 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 20 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- guard chambers and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east); Passage-way/Corridor (South east); Recesses/Guard Chambers (South east); In-turned (East); Passage-way/Corridor (East); Recesses/Guard Chambers (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, rectangular structures, and quarry hollows
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Excavation (1963); Other (2003); Other (2012); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Other (2007-2009); Earthwork Survey (2008); Excavation (2009-2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005526
- HER
- Herefordshire MHE409 (second identifier 906)
- National record
- record SO 44 SE 1; monument 108026
- Wikidata
- Q31114115
Sources
References
- Boucher, A. and Eisel, J. 2004. Park Wood Credenhill Archaeological Survey, Herefordshire: Archaeological Landscape Survey and Site Assessment, Archaeological Investigations Ltd. 595.
- 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, 206-7, London: St Catherine Press.
- RCHME 1931-34. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, 2 (E), 65, 6, London: HMSO.
- Stanford, S.C. 1970. Credenhill Camp, Herefordshire, an Iron-Age hillfort capital, Archaeol J, CXXVII, 82-129.