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Quarley Hill Camp
Hampshire, England · Atlas EN3831
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3831 (3831)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Quarley
- National Grid reference
- SU26254236
- Latitude
- 51.17973
- Longitude
- -1.62586
- Altitude
- 171 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 3.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); In-turned (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, human bones, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1874); Excavation (1938); Other (1967); Other (1971); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1001952
- HER
- Hampshire 22133
- National record
- record SU 24 SE 3; monument 223925
- Wikidata
- Q31117241
Sources
References
- Cunliffe, B. and Miles, D. 1984. Aspects of the Iron Age in Central Southern Britain, Oxford: Oxford University Committee for Archaeology Monograph 2, 9, 30-1.
- Hawkes, C.F.C. 1938-40. Excavations at Quarley Hill, Proc Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol Soc, 14, 136-94.
- Payne, A, Corney, M. and Cunliffe, B. 2006. The Wessex hillforts project, Extensive survey of hillfort interiors in central southern England. London: English Heritage.
- Williams-Freeman, J.P. 1915. An introduction to field archaeology as illustrated by Hampshire, London: Macmillan and Co Ltd, 121-4, 397.