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Norbury

Buckinghamshire, England ยท Atlas EN3449

Location

Atlas number
EN3449 (3449)
Country
England
Current county or unitary authority
Buckinghamshire
Historic county
Buckinghamshire
Parish, community, or townland
Padbury
National Grid reference
SP 7112 3006
Latitude
51.96446
Longitude
-0.96619
Altitude
81 m

Form and condition

Type
hillslope fort
Condition
Extant and Likely destroyed
Morphology
partial univallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
1
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
Number of ditches
1
Enclosed area
3.4 ha
Footprint
4 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank
Also recorded
ditches

Landscape

Topographic position
cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
Aspect
west
Land use
pasture
Water source
stream

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
1st Identified Map Depiction (1590); 1st Identified Written Reference (1929); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1952); Other (1974); Other (1998)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
1017514
HER
Buckinghamshire 78300000
National record
record SP 73 SW 5; monument 342998
Wikidata
Q31117502

Sources

References

  1. Research Committee of the Congress of Archaeological Studies 37 (1929), 11