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Badbury Camp
Oxfordshire, England · Atlas EN0144
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0144 (144)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Oxfordshire
- Historic county
- Berkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Great Coxwell
- National Grid reference
- SU 2611 9466
- Latitude
- 51.64999
- Longitude
- -1.62344
- Altitude
- 162 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 3.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Other (1983); Other (2003); Geophysical Survey (2016); LiDAR Survey (2016); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004857
- HER
- Oxfordshire 7101 (second identifier MOX198)
- National record
- record SU 29 SE 17; monument 225965
- Wikidata
- Q31116455
Sources
References
- Cotton, M. A. 1962. Berkshire Hill Forts. Berkshire Archaeol J, 60: 30-52
- Hingley, R. 1983. Great Coxwell: Badbury. S Midlands Archaeol, 13, 128-9
- National Trust and MOLA. 2016. LiDAR and geophysical survey, Badbury Camp. Unpublished report.