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Bulbury Camp
Dorset, England · Atlas EN3583
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3583 (3583)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lychett Minster and Upton
- National Grid reference
- SY929942
- Latitude
- 50.74751
- Longitude
- -2.10209
- Altitude
- 45 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 3.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East); In-turned (West); Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- Excavation (1884); Other (1996); Other (1997); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1937-1961)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016725
- HER
- Dorset MDO7793
- National record
- record SY 99 SW 4; monument 457414
- Wikidata
- Q31115852
Sources
References
- Brown, I. 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales, Oxford: Windgather Press/Oxbow Books.
- Cunliffe, B. 1972. The late Iron Age metalwork from Bulbury, Dorset, Antiq J, 52, 293-308.
- Cunnington, E.. On a hoard of bronze, iron, and other objects found in Bulbury Camp, Dorset. Arch J. xlviii. 115-120.
- Farrar, R.A.H. 1964. Archaeological notes and news for 1964. Recent discoveries and accessions. Proc Dorset Natur Hist Archaeol Soc, 86, 115.
- Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
- RCHME 1970. An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol 2: south-east, No 30, part 3. London: RCHME.