Location
- Atlas number
- EN0398 (398)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bromham
- National Grid reference
- SU00106468
- Latitude
- 51.38113
- Longitude
- -1.99994
- Altitude
- 190 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain 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
- 1.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
- Water source
- pool
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Other
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1695); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887); Excavation (1907); Geophysical Survey (1996); Other (1997-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005709
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI86680
- National record
- record SU 06 SW 11; monument 216145
- Wikidata
- Q31116760
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.
- Cunnington, M.E.1908. Oliver's Camp, Devises, Wiltshire Archaeol Natur Hist Mag, 35, 408-44.
- Payne, A., Corney, M. and Cunliffe, B. 2006. The Wessex Hillforts Project. Extensive survey of hillfort interiors in Cenral Southern England, London: English Heritage, 128-130.
- Pugh, R.B. and Crittall, E. 1957. A history of Wiltshire, 1.1, The Victoria History of the Counties of England, London: OUP, 263.