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Boddington Camp
Buckinghamshire, England · Atlas EN3425
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3425 (3425)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Historic county
- Buckinghamshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Halton
- National Grid reference
- SP 8822 0798
- Latitude
- 51.76351
- Longitude
- -0.72307
- Altitude
- 251 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1912); Other (1963); Excavation (1964); Other (1974); Geophysical Survey (1996); Earthwork Survey (1996); Other (2010); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1877-1878)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011304
- HER
- Buckinghamshire 164500000
- National record
- record SP 80 NE 2; monument 344134
- Wikidata
- Q31117417
Sources
References
- Anon. 1961-65. Archaeological Notes from the Buckinghamshire County Museum. Rec Buckinghamshire 17, (1964), 301
- Bartlett-Clark Consultancy. 1996. Archaeogeophysical survey of the Hillfort at Boddington Banks, Wendover. Unpublished.
- Farley, M. 1982. Archaeological Notes from the Buckinghamshire County Museum. Rec Buckinghamshire 24, 172
- Royal Commision on Historic Monuments England. 1912. Buckinghamshire, 1, 184.
- Thorn, B. and Gething, I. 1996. A report on an Archaeological Survey of the Hillfort at Boddington Bank, Wendover, Buckinghamshire. Bartlett Clark Consultancy. Unpublished.