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Medmenham Camp
Buckinghamshire, England ยท Atlas EN3444
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3444 (3444)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Historic county
- Buckinghamshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Medmenham
- National Grid reference
- SU 8067 8469
- Latitude
- 51.55529
- Longitude
- -0.83770
- Altitude
- 75 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 6.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop, lowland, and spur
- Aspect
- south and west
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metal and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1876); 1st Identified Written Reference (1914); Other (1966); Other (1970); Other (1974); Other (1993); Earthwork Survey (2005-2008); Geophysical Survey (2005-2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1013938
- HER
- Buckinghamshire 116800000
- National record
- record SU 88 SW 16; monument 248626
- Wikidata
- Q31117455
Sources
References
- Brown, M. 1993. Thames Valley National Mapping Programme. RCHME
- RCHME 1914. An Inventory of the Historic Monuments of Buckinghamshire, 256-7
- Laker, J.S. 2008. Romadam Project: Recording of Marlow and District's Ancient Monuments.
- Archaeology in Marlow. 2008. The ROMADAM Project: Medmenham Iron Age Hill Fort. Unpublished