Location
- Atlas number
- EN0136 (136)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Oxfordshire
- Historic county
- Oxfordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Swalcliffe
- National Grid reference
- SP 3864 3889
- Latitude
- 52.04666
- Longitude
- -1.43639
- Altitude
- 171 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Outworks (South); Oblique (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and animal bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1705); Other (1978); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1890); Excavation (1957-1958); Geophysical Survey (1957-1958)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006371
- HER
- Oxfordshire 1592 (second identifier MOX24)
- National record
- record SP 33 NE 4; monument 335052
- Wikidata
- Q31116389
Sources
References
- Fowler, P.J. 1960. Excavations at Madmarston Camp, Swalcliffe, 1957-8. Oxoniensia, 25, 3-48.
- Manning, P. and Leeds, E.T. 1921. An archaeological survey of Oxfordshire. London: Society of Antiquaries.
- Page, W. (ed) 1907. The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, Vol II. London, 311.
- Plot, R. 1705. The natural history of Oxfordshire, 341.