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Idbury Camp
Oxfordshire, England · Atlas EN0171
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0171 (171)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Oxfordshire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Idbury
- National Grid reference
- SP 22874 19543
- Latitude
- 51.87406
- Longitude
- -1.66900
- Altitude
- 198 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 3.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and animal bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1705); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014558
- HER
- Oxfordshire 1448 (second identifier MOX292)
- National record
- record SP 21 NW 2; monument 332307
- Wikidata
- Q31116670
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, 315.
- Plot, R. 1705. The natural history of Oxfordshire, 341.
- Sutton, J.E.G. 1966. Iron-Age hill-forts and some other earthworks in Oxfordshire, Oxoniensia, 31, 28-42.
- Steane, J. 1981. Idbury. S Midlands Archaeol, 79.