Location
- Atlas number
- EN0139 (139)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Oxfordshire
- Historic county
- Berkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Whitchurch-on-Thames
- National Grid reference
- SU 6431 7825
- Latitude
- 51.49948
- Longitude
- -1.07435
- Altitude
- 115 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort and hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 23.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Excavation (1954); Excavation (1994); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1937-1961)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003704
- HER
- Oxfordshire 1940 (second identifier MOX70)
- National record
- record SU 67 NW 21; monument 241336
- Wikidata
- Q31116418
Sources
References
- Wood, P. 1954. The early Iron Age camp on Bozedown, Whitchurch, Oxon. Oxoniensia, 19, 8-14.
- Howell, L. 1995. The Excavation of a Bronge Age Ditch at the Field Test Centre at Castrol Technology Centre, Pangbourne, Berkshire. Oxoniensia, 61, 35-9.