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Rybury Camp
Wiltshire, England · Atlas EN0397
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0397 (397)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- All Cannings
- National Grid reference
- SU08336396
- Latitude
- 51.37463
- Longitude
- -1.88173
- Altitude
- 240 m
Form and condition
- Type
- 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
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches and gang working
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887); Excavation (1963); Other (1995); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Other (1960-1969); Other (1997-1998)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005695
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI8517
- National record
- record SU 06 SE 63; monument 1093452
- Wikidata
- Q31116750
Sources
References
- Brown, G., Field, D. and McOmish, D. 2005. The Avebury landscape. Aspects of the field archaeology of the Marlborough Downs. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Oswald, A, Dyer, C. and Barber, M. 2001. The creation of monuments: Neolithic causewayed enclosures in the British Isles. London: English Heritage.