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Cherbury Camp
Oxfordshire, England · Atlas EN0143
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0143 (143)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Oxfordshire
- Historic county
- Berkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Charney Bassett
- National Grid reference
- SU 3742 9620
- Latitude
- 51.66464
- Longitude
- -1.45994
- Altitude
- 72 m
Form and condition
- Type
- marsh fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 4.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches and gang working
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- valley bottom
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Excavation (1939); Other (1939); Other (1983); Other (2003); Geophysical Survey (2007); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Earthwork Survey (1983-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006296
- HER
- Oxfordshire 4943 (second identifier MOX183)
- National record
- record SU 39 NE 4; monument 229424
- Wikidata
- Q31116446
Sources
References
- Bradford, J. 1940. The excavation of Cherbury Camp, 1939. An interim report. Oxoniensia, 5, 13-20.
- Arkell, W. 1939. The site of Cherbury Camp. Oxoniensia, 4, 196-7.
- Hingley, R. 1983. Charney Bassett: Cherbury Camp. S Midlands Archaeol, 13, 123-5.
- Wintle, W., Hawes, J and Boyer K. 2009. Geophysical survey at and near Cherbury Camp. S Midlands Archaeol, 39, 67-71.