Location
- Atlas number
- EN0999 (999)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Leicestershire
- Historic county
- Leicestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ratby
- National Grid reference
- SK 4981 0577
- Latitude
- 52.64745
- Longitude
- -1.26507
- Altitude
- 107 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 8
- Enclosed area
- 4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast and south
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Other (1981); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005079
- HER
- Leicestershire and Rutland MLE3100
- National record
- record SK 4 0 NE 4; monument 921291
- Wikidata
- Q31113608
Sources
References
- Ball, M. 1981-2. Bury Camp, Ratby- a new look at the earthworks, Leicestershire Archaeol Hist Soc Trans, 57, 84.
- Page, W. (ed) 1907. The Victoria history of the county of Leicester, Volume 1, 215, 253.