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Chisenbury Camp
Wiltshire, England · Atlas EN0408
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0408 (408)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Enford
- National Grid reference
- SU15195387
- Latitude
- 51.28374
- Longitude
- -1.78358
- Altitude
- 154 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- pits
- Finds
- pottery, human bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1931); Earthwork Survey (1991); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886-1887)
Identifiers
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI113701
- National record
- record SU 15 SE 7; monument 220236
- Wikidata
- Q31116834
Sources
References
- Cunnington, M.E. 1932-34. Chisenbury Camp, Wiltshire Archaeol Natur Hist Soc, 46, 1-3.
- Hoare, R.C. Ancient Wiltshire, I, London: Miller, 92.