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Nadbury Camp
Warwickshire, England · Atlas EN3145
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3145 (3145)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Warwickshire
- Historic county
- Warwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ratley and Upton
- National Grid reference
- SP 39017 48208
- Latitude
- 52.13077
- Longitude
- -1.43143
- Altitude
- 210 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 6.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (West); Hollow Way (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual, C14, and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1695); Earthwork Survey (1822); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Other (1968); Excavation (1983); Geophysical Survey (1983); Other (1992); Other (1997-1998); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003724
- HER
- Warwickshire 755
- National record
- record SP 34 NE 4; monument 335146
- Wikidata
- Q31119827
Sources
References
- Camden's Britannia, 1695 a facsimile of the 1695 edition published by Edmund Gibson 1969. London Times Newspapers. 499
- Coutts, C. 1997. Archaeological Observation at Nadbury Camp, Ratley and Upton, Warwickshire. Warwickshire Museum Field Services. Unpublished
- French, A .H. 1981. Nadbury. Unpublished
- McArthur, C 1987-8. Excavations at Nadbury Camp, Warwickshire SP 390482. Trans Birmingham & Warwickshire Archaeol Soc. 96, 1-16.
- Thomas, N. 1974. An archaeological gazetteer for Warwickshire: Neolithic to Iron Age. Trans Birm Warwicks Archaeol Soc, 86, 16-48.
- Wager, S.J. 2002. Nadbury Camp, Warwickshire: Report on Field Survey in 1999. Unpublished
- Warwickshire Museum Field Services 1998. Archaeological Observation at Nadbury Camp 1998, Ratley and Upton, Warwickshire. Unpublished