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Ilbury Camp
Oxfordshire, England · Atlas EN0151
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0151 (151)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Oxfordshire
- Historic county
- Oxfordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Deddington
- National Grid reference
- SP 4378 3055
- Latitude
- 51.97249
- Longitude
- -1.36411
- Altitude
- 122 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
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 2.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, arable, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1086); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015167
- HER
- Oxfordshire 2320 (second identifier MOX303)
- National record
- record SP 43 W 11; monument 337097
- Wikidata
- Q31116596
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, 311.
- Sutton, J.E.G. 1966. Iron-Age hill-forts and some other earthworks in Oxfordshire, Oxoniensia, 31, 28-42.