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Danebury Hill Camp

Hampshire, England · Atlas EN3828

Danebury Hill Camp is a contour fort in Nether Wallop, Hampshire, England.

Other names on the record: Danebury and Dunbury.

It is recorded as extant, with a multivallate rampart form, surface evidence of earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and berm, and an enclosed area of 5 hectares.

Banks or ramparts are the remains most likely to be visible.

The topographic record places it on a hilltop and at 143 m.

The aspect is recorded as level.

Recorded land use includes woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken.

Dating evidence is recorded for 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50 (Artefactual and C14). Reliability is recorded as A - High.

A scheduled monument number is recorded (1001949).

Location

Atlas number
EN3828 (3828)
Country
England
Current county or unitary authority
Hampshire
Historic county
Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Parish, community, or townland
Nether Wallop
National Grid reference
SU323376
Latitude
51.13671
Longitude
-1.53973
Altitude
143 m

Form and condition

Type
contour fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
multivallate
Complete rampart circuit
Yes
Number of ramparts
3
Number of ditches
3
Possible original entrances
2
Breaks through the ramparts
2
Enclosed area
5 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and berm
Enclosing works, excavated
earthen bank, timber-framed wall, counterscarp bank, and berm
Also recorded
multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Entrance forms
Blocked (South west); Hornwork (East); Passage-way/Corridor (East); Outworks (East)

Landscape

Topographic position
hilltop
Aspect
level
Land use
woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken

Dating

Dating
800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
Dating evidence
Artefactual and C14
Dating reliability
A - High

Interior and investigation

Interior surface
quarry hollows
Interior excavation
pits, postholes, roundhouses, rectangular structures, roads or tracks, and quarry hollows
Finds
pottery, metal, metalworking, human bones, animal bones, lithics, and environmental material
Investigations
Excavation (1858); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); Other (1971); Geophysical Survey (1975); Excavation (1995); Excavation (1996); Geophysical Survey (1996); Other (1997); Other (2011); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Excavation (1969-19

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
1001949
HER
Hampshire 26256
National record
record SU 33 NW 22; monument 227448
Wikidata
Q31117217

Sources

References

  1. Cunliffe, B. 1993. Danebury, London: English Heritage.
  2. Cunliffe, B. 1995. Danebury: An Iron Age hillfort in Hampshire, A hillfort community in perspecyive, Volume 6, CBA Res Rep 102, London: CBA.
  3. Cunliffe, B. 2000. The Danebury Environs Programme: the prehistory of a Wessex landscape, Volume 1, Introduction, English Heritage/Oxford University Committee for Archaeology Monogr 48, Oxford.
  4. Cunliffe, B. 1984. Danebury: An Iron Age hillfort in Hampshire. The excavations 1969-1978, Volumes 1 and 2, CBA Res Rep 52, London: CBA.
  5. Cunliffe, B.W. and Poole, C. 1991. Danebury: an Iron Age hillfort in Hampshire. The excavations 1979-1988. Volumes 4 and 5, CBA Res Rep, 73, London: CBA.
  6. Clelland S. 2011. Danebury Hillfort, Hampshire: archaeological watching brief, Wessex Archaeology Rep 77420.
  7. Davis, O. 2013. Re-interpreting the Danebury assemblage: Houses, households and community. Proc Prehist Soc, 79, 353-75.
  8. Ford B. M.1995. Danebury Ring, Hillfort, Nether Wallop, Hampshire, 1995. An Archaeological Recording Action. Thames Valley Archaeological Services, 95/28.
  9. Haselgrove, C., Gosden, C., Hamilton, D., Brown, L. and Poole, C. Forthcoming. Iron Age settlement and society in central southern Britain: a new chronological perspective. Oxford: School of Archaeology Monograph.
  10. Palmer, R. 1984. Danebury. An Iron Age hillfort in Hampshire. An aerial photographic interpretation of its environs. London: RCHME Supplementary Series 6.
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