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Park Hill Camp
Wiltshire, England ยท Atlas EN0417
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0417 (417)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stourton with Gasper
- National Grid reference
- ST76363471
- Latitude
- 51.11122
- Longitude
- -2.33901
- Altitude
- 213 m
Form and condition
- Type
- multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 7
- Enclosed area
- 2.3 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 2.3 ha, 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (South east); Oblique (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887-1889); Earthwork Survey (1983-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005643
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI59
- National record
- record ST 73 SE 16; monument 202597
- Wikidata
- Q31116876
Sources
References
- Colt Hoare, R.C. 1812. The ancient history of Wiltshire, 1, London: Miller, 38-9.
- Pugh, R.B. and Crittall, E. eds 1957. A history of Wiltshire, 1.1, The Victoria history of the counties of England, Oxford: OUP, 269.