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Woodbury Hill Camp
Dorset, England ยท Atlas EN3610
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3610 (3610)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bere Regis
- National Grid reference
- SY85639480
- Latitude
- 50.75241
- Longitude
- -2.20499
- Altitude
- 110 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 5.5 ha
- Footprint
- 11 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1844); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016042
- HER
- Dorset MDO7148
- National record
- record SY 89 SE 2; monument 456110
- Wikidata
- Q31116036
Sources
References
- Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
- Hutchins, Rev. J. 1868. The history and antiquities of the County of Dorset, 4, 3rd Edn, Westminster, 135.
- RCHME 1970. An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol 2, pt 3: south-east, No 40, 484-86, 594, London: RCHME.
- Wallis, S. 1995. Woodbury Hill, Bere Regis. No details.