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Cholesbury Camp
Buckinghamshire, England · Atlas EN3448
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3448 (3448)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Historic county
- Buckinghamshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cholesbury-Cum-St. Leonards
- National Grid reference
- SP 9301 0722
- Latitude
- 51.75591
- Longitude
- -0.65388
- Altitude
- 187 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 3, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 4.5 ha
- Footprint
- 6.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and built-up land
- Water source
- pool
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Finds
- pottery and metalworking
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1908); Other (1921); Excavation (1932); Other (1974); Geophysical Survey (2000); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1883-1884); Excavation (2001-2017)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015585
- HER
- Buckinghamshire 1600000
- National record
- record SP 90 NW 3; monument 346283
- Wikidata
- Q31117493
Sources
References
- BCAMS, 1992. An Archaeological Evaluation at Moat House, Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire. Buckinghamshire County Museum Archaeology Service. Unpublished
- Gover, J, 2000. A Geophysical Survey of Cholesbury Camp, The Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire. unpublished
- Kimball, D. 1933. Cholesbury Camp, J Brit Archaeol Assoc 39, 187_21
- Lightfoot, M. 2002. An Archaeological Evaluation at the Old Vicarage, Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire.
- Archaeological Services and Consultancy Ltd
- Page, W. 1908.The Victoria history of the county of Buckingham, Vol 2, 22-24