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Knollbury Camp
Oxfordshire, England ยท Atlas EN0153
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0153 (153)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Oxfordshire
- Historic county
- Oxfordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Chadlington
- National Grid reference
- SP 3164 2301
- Latitude
- 51.90465
- Longitude
- -1.54159
- Altitude
- 167 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope 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
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1776); Geophysical Survey (2000); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015322
- HER
- Oxfordshire 1548 (second identifier 334982)
- National record
- record SP 32 SW 2
- Wikidata
- Q31116617
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, 317.
- Sherwood G. 2001 REPORT ON THE GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY OF KNOLLBURY CAMP HILLFORT. Unpublished.
- Sutton, J.E.G. 1966. Iron-Age hill-forts and some other earthworks in Oxfordshire, Oxoniensia, 31, 28-42.