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Winklebury Camp
Hampshire, England · Atlas EN3789
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3789 (3789)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Basingstoke and Deane
- National Grid reference
- SU61355290
- Latitude
- 51.27190
- Longitude
- -1.12194
- Altitude
- 125 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 7.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, timber-framed wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery, human bones, and animal bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1290); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1844); Other (1937); Other (1968); Excavation (1980); Other (1872-1879); Excavation (1959-1960); Excavation (1975-1976); Geophysical Survey (1975-1976)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003559
- HER
- Hampshire 17570
- National record
- record SU 65 SW 10; monument 240631
- Wikidata
- Q31117021
Sources
References
- Bartlett, A. no date. Geophysics from Winklebury, AML Rep No 2209, Ancient Monuments Laboratory English Heritage.
- Fisher,A.R. 1985. Winklebury Hillfort: a study of artefact distributions from subsoil features, Proc Prehist Soc, 51, 167-80.
- Hampton, J. 1989. The Air Photography Unit of The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England 1965-1985, In ed D. Kennedy, Into the Sun: Essays in Air Photography in Archaeology in Honour of Derrick Riley, 13-28, fig. 4.6.
- Robertson- Mackay, R. 1977. The defences of the Iron Age hillfort at Winklebury, Basingstoke, Hampshire, Proc Prehist Soc, 43, 31-154.
- Schadla-Hall 1980R.T. 1980. Note, CBA Group 12: Newsletter, Sep 1980/9.
- Smith, K. 1977. The excavation of Winklebury Camp, Basingstoke, Hampshire, Proc Prehist Soc, 43, 31-129.
- Smith, K. 1979. Winklebury Camp, Basingstoke [Hants]: a note. Proc Prehist Soc, 45, 321-2.