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Oldbury Camp
Warwickshire, England ยท Atlas EN3148
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3148 (3148)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Warwickshire
- Historic county
- Warwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hartshill
- National Grid reference
- SP 3135 9470
- Latitude
- 52.54935
- Longitude
- -1.53933
- Altitude
- 175 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope 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
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop, ridge, and hillslope
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- woodland and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and human bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1730); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1889); Excavation (1949); Other (1951); Other (1967); Other (1981); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1018855
- HER
- Warwickshire 255
- National record
- record SP 39 SW 4; monument 336255
- Wikidata
- Q31119840
Sources
References
- Dauncey, K.D.M. 1949. Oldbury, Excavation 1949: Advance summary (unpublished),
- Doubleday, H. A. and Page, W. (eds) 1904. Victoria County History, Warwickshire, Vol 1. 376-8
- Dugdale, W. 1730. Antiquities of Warwickshire.
- Ferris, I. M., Sterenberg, J. 1992. An Archaeological Evaluation at Oldbury Camp, near Nuneaton. Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit Report in, Vol. 206, (1992)
- Jones, A. E. 1993. Oldbury Camp, Near Nuneaton, Warwickshire; an archaeological watching brief. Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit.