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Caesar's Camp
Dorset, England ยท Atlas EN3613
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3613 (3613)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tarrant Gunville
- National Grid reference
- ST93021561
- Latitude
- 50.93976
- Longitude
- -2.10076
- Altitude
- 137 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Out-turned (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1020611
- HER
- Dorset MDO4906
- National record
- record ST 91 NW 31; monument 209944
- Wikidata
- Q31116039
Sources
References
- Farquharson, R. undated. Bussey Stool Farm Eastbury Estates. No further details.
- RCHME 1972. An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol 4: north Dorset, 96, London: RCHME.
- Sumner, H. 1913. The Ancient Earthworks of Cranborne Chase, 30-33.