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Castle Grove Camp
Oxfordshire, England ยท Atlas EN0138
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0138 (138)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Oxfordshire
- Historic county
- Oxfordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Checkendon
- National Grid reference
- SU 6832 8101
- Latitude
- 51.52374
- Longitude
- -1.01693
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 2.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1890)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006336
- HER
- Oxfordshire 2016 (second identifier MOX69)
- National record
- record SU 68 SE 9; monument 241908
- Wikidata
- Q31116408
Sources
References
- 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, 333.
- Sutton, J.E.G. 1966. Iron-Age hill-forts and some other earthworks in Oxfordshire, Oxoniensia, 31, 28-42.