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Oldox Camp
Nottinghamshire, England ยท Atlas EN2992
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2992 (2992)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Nottinghamshire
- Historic county
- Nottinghamshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Oxton
- National Grid reference
- SK 6341 5319
- Latitude
- 53.07224
- Longitude
- -1.05489
- Altitude
- 105 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 3, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Passage-way/Corridor (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1789); Earthwork Survey (1789); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1884-1891); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003480
- HER
- Nottinghamshire 2772
- National record
- record SK 65 SW 7; monument 320283
- Wikidata
- Q31112870
Sources
References
- Bishop, M. East Midlands Archaeological Research Framework: Resource Assessment of 1st Millennium BC Nottinghamshire. www.le.ac.uk/ulas/publications/documents/20nott1stmill_000.pdf accessed May 2015
- Rooke, H. 1789. Mr Rooke on the Roman Roads and Camps. Archaeologia 9, 201+ pl. XI.5
- Simmons, B.B. 1963. Iron Age hill forts in Nottinghamshire. Trans Thoroton Soc Nottinghamshire, 67, 15-17