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Barnmoor Wood Camp
Warwickshire, England ยท Atlas EN3162
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3162 (3162)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Warwickshire
- Historic county
- Warwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Claverdon
- National Grid reference
- SP 17667 64624
- Latitude
- 52.27945
- Longitude
- -1.74247
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Footprint
- 1.46 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); Other Forms (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1873); Other (1925); Other (1968); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011369
- HER
- Warwickshire 948
- National record
- record SP 16 SE 2; monument 331243
- Wikidata
- Q31119876
Sources
References
- Burgess, J. T. 1872. Early Earthworks in Warwickshire. Birmingham Archaeol Soc 1873, 86
- Doubleday, H. A. and Page, W. (eds) 1904. Victoria County History, Warwickshire, Vol 1. 569-70
- Thomas, N. 1974. An archaeological gazetteer for Warwickshire: Neolithic to Iron Age. Trans Birm Warwicks Archaeol Soc, 86, 16-48.