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Holmbury Camp
Surrey, England · Atlas EN2574
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2574 (2574)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Surrey
- Historic county
- Surrey
- Parish, community, or townland
- Shere and Ockley
- National Grid reference
- TQ 10457 42996
- Latitude
- 51.17548
- Longitude
- -0.42126
- Altitude
- 255 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 3.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1787); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1870); Earthwork Survey (1897); Excavation (1930); Excavation (1974); Geophysical Survey (1974); Other (1975); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1013183
- HER
- Surrey 2
- National record
- record TQ 14 SW 2; monument 397104
- Wikidata
- Q31117607
Sources
References
- Hamilton, S. and Manley, J. 2001. Hillforts, monumentality and place: a chronological and topographical review of First millennium BC hillforts of South-East England. European J Archaeol, 4(1), 7-42.
- Hooker, R. and English, J. 2008a. Damage Report on Holmbury Hillfort, Surrey. Surrey Archaeological Society, privately circulated report.
- Hooker, R. and English, J. 2008b. Holmbury Hillfort. An archaeological survey. Surrey Archaeological Society, privately circulated report (online at: http://www.academia.edu/5564840/Archaeological_survey_of_Holmbury_Hillfort_Surrey)
- Malden, H.E. 1902. Holmbury Hill and the neighbourhood, Surrey Archaeol Coll, 17, 72-76.
- Seager Thomas, M. 2010. A re-contextualization of the prehistoric pottery from the Surrey hillforts of Hascombe, Holmbury and Anstiebury, Surrey Archaeol Coll, 95, 1-33.
- Thompson, F.H. 1979. Three Surrey hillforts: excavations at Anstiebury, Holmbury and Hascombe, 1972-77, Antiq J. 59, 245-318.
- Winbolt, S.E. 1930. Excavations at Holmbury Camp, Surrey, Surrey Archaeol Coll, 38, 156-170.