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Combs Camp
Nottinghamshire, England ยท Atlas EN2990
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2990 (2990)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Nottinghamshire
- Historic county
- Nottinghamshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Farnsfield
- National Grid reference
- SK 6314 5512
- Latitude
- 53.08955
- Longitude
- -1.05865
- Altitude
- 96 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant, Cropmark, and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1785); Other (1955); Other (1974); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1883-1885); Excavation (1961-1962)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003483
- HER
- Nottinghamshire 2757
- National record
- record SK 65 NW 2; monument 320231
- Wikidata
- Q31112867
Sources
References
- Rooke H. 1789. Letter. Archaeologia. 9, 200
- Simmons, B.B. 1963. Iron Age Hill Forts in Nottinghamshire. Trans Thoroton Soc Nottinghamshire. LXVII 9-13, 15.
- Stevenson, W. 1906. Victoria County History, Nottinghamshire, Vol 1, 290-1.