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Banbury Hill Camp
Dorset, England ยท Atlas EN3581
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3581 (3581)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Okeford Fitzpaine
- National Grid reference
- ST 789 119
- Latitude
- 50.90638
- Longitude
- -2.30013
- Altitude
- 110 m
Form and condition
- Type
- 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
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South west); Outworks (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887); Other (1986); LiDAR Survey (2015)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1018873
- HER
- Dorset MDO4526
- National record
- record ST 71 SE 11; monument 202265
- Wikidata
- Q31115843
Sources
References
- Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
- Pearce, P. and Woodward, P.J. 1986. Observations at Banbury Hill Camp, Okeford Fitzpaine, Proc Dorset Natur Hist and Archaeol Soc, 108, 175-177.
- RCHME 1970. An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol 3, Central Dorset, London: RCHME.