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Bury Hill Camp, Purton
Wiltshire, England · Atlas EN0400
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0400 (400)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Purton
- National Grid reference
- SU05759010
- Latitude
- 51.60968
- Longitude
- -1.91830
- Altitude
- 113 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 4.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1876); Other (1988-1991)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1018125
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI9555
- National record
- record SU 09 SE 1; monument 216720
- Wikidata
- Q31116771
Sources
References
- Pugh, R.B. and Crittall, E. eds 1957. A history of Wiltshire, 1.1, The Victoria history of the counties of England, Oxford: OUP, 268.