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Wick Ball Camp
Wiltshire, England · Atlas EN0393
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0393 (393)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Teffont
- National Grid reference
- SU00043195
- Latitude
- 51.08687
- Longitude
- -2.00071
- Altitude
- 180 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Hornwork (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Excavation (1920-1930); Earthwork Survey (1983-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005673
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI6633
- National record
- record SU 03 SW 5; monument 214708
- Wikidata
- Q31116736
Sources
References
- Pugh, R.B. and Crittall, E. 1957. A history of Wiltshire, 1.1, The Victoria History of the Counties of England, London: OUP, 265.