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Caesar's Camp
Central Bedfordshire, England · Atlas EN3297
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3297 (3297)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Historic county
- Bedfordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Sandy
- National Grid reference
- TL 17911 48953
- Latitude
- 52.12628
- Longitude
- -0.27898
- Altitude
- 56 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west); In-turned (East); Out-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop, lowland, and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland, parkland, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1806); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1884); Other (1968)
Identifiers
- HER
- Central Bedfordshire and Luton 442
- National record
- record TL 14 NE 4; monument 362654
- Wikidata
- Q31052897
Sources
References
- Doubleday, H. A. 1904. Victoria County History, Bedfordshire. Vol. 1, pp. 271-273.
- Lysons, D. and S. 1806. Magna Britannia. Bedfordshire. p. 35.
- Albion Archaeology 2003. Extensive Urban Survey for Bedfordshire. The Roman Town of Sandy. Archaeological Assessment. Produced for: Bedfordshire County Council and English Heritage. Revised 2005.