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Bigbury Camp
Kent, England · Atlas EN3771
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3771 (3771)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kent
- Historic county
- Kent
- Parish, community, or townland
- Harbledown and Rough Common
- National Grid reference
- TR 1167 5758
- Latitude
- 51.27804
- Longitude
- 1.03369
- Altitude
- 71 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 1, SW 1, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 10.7 ha
- Footprint
- 15.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop, ridge, and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and arable
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1861); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1873); Other (1954); Other (1963); Earthwork Survey (2008); Earthwork Survey (2015); Excavation (1933-1934); Excavation (1962-1963); Excavation (1978-1980); Other (2009-2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005169
- HER
- Kent MKE4844
- National record
- record TR 15 NW 33; monument 464710
- Wikidata
- Q31117871
Sources
References
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- Burleigh, R., Mathews, K. and Ambers, J. 1982. Radiocarbon 1982 British Museum Natural Radiocarbon Measurements XIV. Radiocarbon, 24, No.3, 229-261
- Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2012, Archaeological watching brief on fencing work at Bigbury Camp, Kent. Unpublished
- Cunliffe, B. 2005. Iron Age Communities in Britain. 4th Ed. Routledge
- Dyer, J. 2001. Discovering Prehistoric England: A gazetteer of prehistoric sites. Shire Publications.
- Haselgrove, C. and Fitzpatrick, A. In the footsteps of Caesar: the archaeology of the first Roman invasions of Britain, see: https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/research/projects/footsteps-of-caesar [accessed November 2016].
- Hussey, R.C. 1874. The British Settllement at Bigbury Wood, Harbledown. Archaeol Cantiana 9, 13-15
- Jessup, R.F. 1932. Bigberry Camp, Harbledown, Kent. Arch J. 89:1, 87-115
- Jessup, R.F. and Cook, N.C. 1936. Excavations at Bigberry Camp, Harbledown. Kent Archaeological Society Archaeol Cantiana. 48 Page(s)151-68
- Sparey-Green, C. 2011. Archaeological Watching Brief on fencing work at Bugbury Camp, Kent. 2011/82. Canterbury Archaeological Trust. BC-WB-09BCF-WB-10. Unpublished