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Wappenbury Camp
Warwickshire, England · Atlas EN3146
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3146 (3146)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Warwickshire
- Historic county
- Warwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wappenbury
- National Grid reference
- SP 3772 6931
- Latitude
- 52.32057
- Longitude
- -1.44803
- Altitude
- 68 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial 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
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, commercial forestry, pasture, arable, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1904); Other (1925); Other (1967); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1950-1959)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1009817
- HER
- Warwickshire 1840
- National record
- record SP 36 NE 3; monument 335465
- Wikidata
- Q31119831
Sources
References
- Booth, P. 1989-90. Late Iron Age pottery and the date of Wappenbury Camp. Trans Birmingham & Warwickshire Archaeol Soc. 96, 1-3
- Doubleday, H. A. and Page, W. (eds) 1904. Victoria County History, Warwickshire, Vol 1, 400-2
- Stanley, M. and Stanley, B. 1960. Defences of the Iron Age Camp at Wappenbury. Trans Birmingham & Warwickshire Archaeol Soc. 76, 1-9