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Arbury Camp
Cambridgeshire, England · Atlas EN3023
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3023 (3023)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cambridgeshire
- Historic county
- Cambridgeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Orchard Park, Cambridge City
- National Grid reference
- TL 4449 6160
- Latitude
- 52.23367
- Longitude
- 0.11446
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 5.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, human bones, animal bones, and environmental material
- Investigations
- Excavation (1970); Earthwork Survey (1995); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1904-1906); Excavation (2003-2004)
Identifiers
- HER
- Cambridgeshire 8479
- National record
- record TL 4 6 SW 4; monument 372005
- Wikidata
- Q31113710
Sources
References
- Evans, C., and Knight., M. 2002, A Great Circle: Investigations at Arbury Camp, Cambridge. Proc Cambridge Antiq Soc, 91, 23-53.
- Evans, C. and Knight, M.. 2005. Excavations at Arbury Camp, Cambridge: The Eastern Entrance. Cambridge Archaeological Unit Report 657
- Oswald, A.. 1995. Arbury Camp, City of Cambridge. An Earthwork Survey by the RCHME. Unpublished RCHME Report
- Salzman, L.F (ed). 1948. The Victoria County History of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. Volume 2.