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Eynsham Park Camp
Oxfordshire, England · Atlas EN0158
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0158 (158)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Oxfordshire
- Historic county
- Oxfordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- North Leigh
- National Grid reference
- SP 3935 1148
- Latitude
- 51.80117
- Longitude
- -1.43075
- Altitude
- 91 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 1.4 ha
- Footprint
- 5.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and parkland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Excavation (1955); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- HER
- Oxfordshire 5133 (second identifier MOX2543)
- National record
- record SP 31 SE 9; monument 334760
- Wikidata
- Q31116481
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, 314.
- Sutton, J.E.G. 1966. Iron-Age hill-forts and some other earthworks in Oxfordshire, Oxoniensia, 31, 28-42.