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Billington Camp
Central Bedfordshire, England · Atlas EN3295
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3295 (3295)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Historic county
- Bedfordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Great Billington
- National Grid reference
- SP 9440 2270
- Latitude
- 51.89482
- Longitude
- -0.62953
- Altitude
- 131 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, human bones, animal bones, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1915); Excavation (1959); Other (1971); Excavation (1997-1999)
Identifiers
- HER
- Central Bedfordshire and Luton 528
- National record
- record SP 92 SW 1; monument 346591
- Wikidata
- Q31052873
Sources
References
- Hudspith, R. 2004. Excavations at New House Farm, Billington, 1997-1999. Befordshire Archaeol, 25, 136-140.
- Mathews, C.L. 1959. Billington. Manshead Mag, 2, 9-10.