Location
- Atlas number
- EN0152 (152)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Oxfordshire
- Historic county
- Oxfordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lyneham
- National Grid reference
- SP 2993 2142
- Latitude
- 51.89076
- Longitude
- -1.56621
- Altitude
- 200 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and animal bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1705); Excavation (1956); Geophysical Survey (2006); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015412
- HER
- Oxfordshire 2302 (second identifier MOX305)
- National record
- record SP 22 SE 12; monument 332631
- Wikidata
- Q31116605
Sources
References
- Bayne, N. 1957. Excavations at Lyneham Camp, Lyneham, Oxon. Oxoniensia, 22, 1-11.
- 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, 315.
- Plot, R. 1705. The natural history of Oxfordshire, 343.