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Danesfield Camp
Buckinghamshire, England · Atlas EN3446
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3446 (3446)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Historic county
- Buckinghamshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Medmenham
- Also recorded in
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- National Grid reference
- SU 81767 84409
- Latitude
- 51.55260
- Longitude
- -0.82206
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 7.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and lowland
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- 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
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1797); Other (1970); Other (1974); Other (1979); Excavation (1990); Geophysical Survey (1997); Excavation (2007); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Earthwork Survey (2007-2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014604
- HER
- Buckinghamshire 173400000
- National record
- record SU 88 SW 15; monument 248621
- Wikidata
- Q31117476
Sources
References
- Cocks, A. H. 1911. The Danes Ditches at Danesfield (Medmenham). Rec Buckinghamshire 10, 19-26
- Farley, M. 1983. Archaeological Notes from the Buckinghamshire County Museum. Rec Buckinghamshire 25,169
- Foreman, S. 1998. Medmenham, Danesfield House Hotel (SP 8170 8430). CBA Grp 9 Newsl, 28.
- Holmes, M. 1999. Danesfield Camp, Medmenham, Bucks. Scheduled Ancient Monument No. 27156. Archaeological Watching Brief. Northamptonshire Archaeology
- Keevill, G., and Campbell, G. E. 1991. Investigations at Danesfield Camp, Medmenham, Buckinghamshire. Rec Buckinghamshire 33.
- Keir, W. 2007. Danesfield Camp, Medmenham: Archaeological Monitoring, Investigation and Recording during Contamination Test Pitting. Albion Archaeology, 2007-29
- Laker, J.S. 2008. Romadam Project: Recording of Marlow and District's Ancient Monuments.
- Langley T. 1797. History and Antiquities of the Hundred of Desborough