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Warham Camp
Norfolk, England · Atlas EN2419
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2419 (2419)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Norfolk
- Historic county
- Norfolk
- Parish, community, or townland
- Warham
- National Grid reference
- TF 9438 4088
- Latitude
- 52.93011
- Longitude
- 0.89031
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1.4 ha
- Footprint
- 3.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1712); Excavation (1914); Excavation (1959)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1018015
- HER
- Norfolk 1828
- National record
- record TF 9 4 SW 8; monument 359249
- Wikidata
- Q31113686
Sources
References
- Davies, J.A., Gregory, T., Lawson, A. L., Rickett, R., and Rogerson, A. 1992. The Iron Age Hill Forts of Norfolk. Dereham
- Gray, H. St G. 1933. Trial excavations at the so-called 'Danish Camp' at Warham, near Wells, Norfolk. Antiq. J. 13, 399-413.
- Gregory, T. 1986. Warham Camp, in Excavations at Thornham, Warham, Wighton and Caister, Norfolk, E Anglian Archaeol Rep. No. 30, 22-26.
- Rickett, R. 1991. The other forts of Norfolk, in The Iron Age forts of Norfolk, E Anglian Archaeol Rep. No. 54, 59-61.