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Danesborough Camp
Milton Keynes, England · Atlas EN3450
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3450 (3450)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Milton Keynes
- Historic county
- Buckinghamshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wavendon
- National Grid reference
- SP 9210 3480
- Latitude
- 52.00403
- Longitude
- -0.65967
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and unfinished work
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- north, west, and northwest
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1884); 1st Identified Written Reference (1908); Excavation (1924); Other (1933); Other (1972)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011302
- HER
- Milton Keynes MMK623
- National record
- record SP 93 SW 4; monument 346675
- Wikidata
- Q31119446
Sources
References
- Anon. 1924. Notes: Excavations at Danesborough Camp, Bucks. Antiq J, 4, 418
- Berry, J. 1924. Excavation at Danesborough Camp. Rec Buckinghamshire. 1919-26, vol II pt 8, 351
- Berry, J. 1926. Excavations at Danesborough Camp. Rec Buckinghamshire. 1919-26 vol II, pt 6, 363-383
- Page, W. 1908. Victoria County History of Buckinghamshire. 2, 22