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Oldbury Castle
Wiltshire, England · Atlas EN0396
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0396 (396)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cherhill
- National Grid reference
- SU 0490 6920
- Latitude
- 51.42246
- Longitude
- -1.93037
- Altitude
- 250 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 8 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 6 ha, 8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East); Barbican (East); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1858); Excavation (1875); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Excavation (1890); Excavation (1939); Geophysical Survey (1996); Earthwork Survey (2004); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Earthwork Survey
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1018611
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI8196
- National record
- record SU 06 NW 27; monument 215900
- Wikidata
- Q31116746
Sources
References
- Bowden M. 2004. Oldbury Castle Hillfort, Wiltshire, Unpublished report AI/31/2004.
- Bowden, M. 2005. The middle Iron Age on the Marlborough Downs, in eds G. Brown, D. Field and D. McOmish, The Avebury landscape, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 156-63.
- Cunnington, H. 1871. Oldbury Camp, Wiltshire, Wiltshire Archaeol Natur Hist Mag, 28, 277.
- Cunnington, W. 1893: Notes on food vessels from Oldbury Hill, Wiltshire Archaeol Natur Hist Mag, 33, 131-38.
- Darvill, T., Stamper, P. and Timby, J. 2002: England an archaeological guide. Oxford: OUP, 402-03.
- Payne, A., Corney, M. and Cunliffe, B. 2006. The Wessex Hillforts Project. Extensive survey of hillfort interiors in Cenral Southern England, London: English Heritage, 123-27.