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Hardwell Camp
Oxfordshire, England · Atlas EN0154
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0154 (154)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Oxfordshire
- Historic county
- Berkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Compton Beauchamp
- National Grid reference
- SU 2876 8673
- Latitude
- 51.57879
- Longitude
- -1.58644
- Altitude
- 182 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hornwork (South east); Passage-way/Corridor (South east); Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (2003); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017820
- HER
- Oxfordshire 7320 (second identifier MOX319)
- National record
- record SU 28 NE 12; monument 225417
- Wikidata
- Q31116628
Sources
References
- Ditchfield, P.H. and Page, W. 1906 The Victoria history of Berkshire, Vol. 1., London, 172-3
- Cotton, M. A. 1962. Berkshire Hill Forts. Berkshire Archaeol J, 60, 51.
- Steane, J. 1982. Hardwell Camp, S Midlands Archaeol, 12, 87-88.