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Cley Hill Camp
Wiltshire, England · Atlas EN0422
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0422 (422)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Corsley
- National Grid reference
- ST83884489
- Latitude
- 51.20298
- Longitude
- -2.23204
- Altitude
- 240 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 6.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Earthwork Survey (1983-2005); Excavation (1801-1832); LiDAR Survey (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017296
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI1230
- National record
- record ST 84 SW 1; monument 207638
- Wikidata
- Q31116887
Sources
References
- Colt Hoare, R.C. 1812. The ancient history of Wiltshire, I, London: Miller, 51.
- Pugh, R.B. and Crittall, E. eds 1957. A history of Wiltshire, 1.1, The Victoria history of the counties of England, Oxford: OUP, 26.