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Danbury Camp
Essex, England · Atlas EN3584
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3584 (3584)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Essex
- Historic county
- Essex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Danebury
- National Grid reference
- TL 7789 0508
- Latitude
- 51.71619
- Longitude
- 0.57375
- Altitude
- 112 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop, inland promontory, and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1086); Other (1768); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1874); Other (1949); Other (1962); Excavation (1974); Geophysical Survey (1974); Other (1975); Excavation (1977); Other (1987); Excavation (1992); Excavation (1992-1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005571
- HER
- Essex 5608
- National record
- record TL 70 NE 24; monument 378139
- Wikidata
- Q31117547
Sources
References
- Bartlett, A. D. 1974 Geophysics : Danbury Hillfort AML report (Old Series) 1693
- Medleycott, M. 1993. Archaeology in Essex 1992: Danbury, Danbury Camp (TL779 052), Essex Archaeol Hist, 24, 205
- Morant, P. 1768. History and Antiquities of Essex. London. II, 30
- Morris, S. and Buckley, D.G. 1978. Excavations at Danbury Camp, Essex 1974 and 1977. Essex Archaeol Hist. 10, 1-28
- Reaney, P.H. 1935. The Place Names of Essex, England. Place Names Soc. XII Cambridge
- Spurrell, F.C. 1890. Danbury Camp, Essex. Essex Natur. IV 138-140