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Segsbury Camp

Oxfordshire, England · Atlas EN0155

Segsbury Camp is a partial contour fort in Letcombe Regis, Oxfordshire, England.

Other names on the record: Letcombe Castle.

It is recorded as extant, with a univallate rampart form, surface evidence of earthen bank, and an enclosed area of 10.7 hectares.

Banks or ramparts are the remains most likely to be visible.

The topographic record places it on a cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and at 212 m.

The aspect is recorded as level.

Recorded land use includes pasture and scrub or bracken.

Dating evidence is recorded for 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50 (Artefactual). Reliability is recorded as A - High.

A scheduled monument number is recorded (1017717).

Location

Atlas number
EN0155 (155)
Country
England
Current county or unitary authority
Oxfordshire
Historic county
Berkshire
Parish, community, or townland
Letcombe Regis
National Grid reference
SU 3850 8448
Latitude
51.55784
Longitude
-1.44606
Altitude
212 m

Form and condition

Type
partial contour fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
univallate
Complete rampart circuit
Yes
Number of ramparts
1
Number of ditches
1
Possible original entrances
2
Breaks through the ramparts
4
Enclosed area
10.7 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank
Enclosing works, excavated
earthen bank, stone wall, timber-framed wall, palisade, counterscarp bank, and berm
Also recorded
ditches
Entrance forms
Out-turned (East); Hornwork (East); Simple Gap (South west)

Landscape

Topographic position
cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
Aspect
level
Land use
pasture and scrub or bracken

Dating

Dating
800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
Dating evidence
Artefactual
Dating reliability
A - High

Interior and investigation

Interior excavation
pits, postholes, and roundhouses
Finds
pottery, metal, metalworking, human bones, animal bones, lithics, and environmental material
Investigations
1st Identified Map Depiction (1762); Other (2003); Geophysical Survey (1993); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Excavation (1996-1997)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
1017717
HER
Oxfordshire 7200 (second identifier MOX321)
National record
record SU 38 SE 3; monument 229295
Wikidata
Q31116637

Sources

References

  1. Levick, P. 2015. Later prehistoric and Roman landscapes on the Berkshire Downs. Oxford: BAR British Series 612.
  2. Lock, G., Gosden, C. and Daly, P. 2005. Segsbury Camp. Excavations in 1996 and 1997 at an Iron Age hillfort on the Oxfordshire Ridgeway. Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph 61.
  3. Payne A. W., 1994 LETCOMBE CASTLE OR SEGSBURY CAMP LETCOMBE REGIS, OXFORDSHIRE: INTERIM REPORT ON GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY, AM LAB REPORT 119/93
  4. Payne, A., Corney, M. and Cunliffe, B. 2006. The Wessex Hillforts Project. Extensive Survey of Hillforts in Central Southern England. London: English Heritage, 89-96.