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Wandlebury Camp
Cambridgeshire, England · Atlas EN3025
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3025 (3025)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cambridgeshire
- Historic county
- Cambridgeshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stapleford
- National Grid reference
- TL 4940 5343
- Latitude
- 52.15888
- Longitude
- 0.18288
- Altitude
- 69 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 6.25 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 6.25 ha, 3.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and timber-framed wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Blocked (South east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- woodland, parkland, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, roundhouses, and rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery, human bones, animal bones, and environmental material
- Investigations
- Geophysical Survey (1994); Earthwork Survey (1994); Geophysical Survey (1998); 1st Identified Written Reference (901-1000); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1955-1956); Excavation (1975-1976); Excavation (1994-1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1009395
- HER
- Cambridgeshire 4636
- National record
- record TL 4 5 SE 2; monument 371612
- Wikidata
- Q31113809
Sources
References
- Chaitlow, E.. 2004. A Bioarchaeological study of skeletons from Wandlebury Iron Age Hill Fort. Unpublished
- French, C.. 2004. Evaluation survey and excavation at Wandlebury ringwork, Cambridgeshire, 1994-7. Proc Cambridge Antiq Soc, 93: 15-65.
- Hartley, B.R.. 1957. The Wandlebury Iron Age Hill-Fort, Excavations of 1955-6. Proc Cambridge Antiq Soc, 50:1-27.
- Pattison, P. and Oswald, A.. 1996. Wandlebury Hillfort, Cambridgeshire. RCHME Report Field Survey Report, NMR Number TL 45 SE 2. Unpublished.
- Taylor, A.. 1977. Skeletons at Wandlebury Hill-fort. Proc Cambridge Antiq Soc, 67: 1.
- Webley, L., 2005 Wandlebury Ringwork, Cambridgeshire 1994-97 Part II, The Iron Age Pottery. Proc Cambridge Antiq Soc, XCIV, 39-45.