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Balksbury Camp
Hampshire, England · Atlas EN3833
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3833 (3833)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Andover
- National Grid reference
- SU35154456
- Latitude
- 51.19912
- Longitude
- -1.49832
- Altitude
- 91 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 18 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and timber-framed wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, human bones, animal bones, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- Excavation (1967); Other (1971); Geophysical Survey (1973); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1873-1874); Excavation (1973-1981); Excavation (1995-1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1018562
- HER
- Hampshire 28887
- National record
- record SU 34 SE 1; monument 228154
- Wikidata
- Q31117254
Sources
References
- Bartlett, A. 1973. Geophysics: Balksbury Camp, Andover, AML Rep No 1606, English Heritage.
- Ellis, C.J. and Rawlings, M. 1997. Excavations at Balksbury Camp, Andover 1995-97, Wessex Archaeology Report.
- Ellis, C.J. and Rawlings, M. 2001. Excavations at Balksbury Camp 1995-97, Proc Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol Soc, 56, 21-94.
- Hawkes, J. 1939. The Excavations at Balksbury, 1939, Proc Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol Soc, 14, 291-337.
- Wainwright, G. J, 1969. The Excavation of Balksbury Camp, Andover, Hants, Proc Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol Soc, 26, 21-55.
- Wainwright, G.J. and Davies, S.M. 1995. Balksbury Camp Hampshire. Excavations 1973 and 1981, English Heritage Archaeological Report 4, London: English Heritage.
- Williams-Freeman, J.P. 1915. An introduction to field archaeology as illustrated by Hampshire, London: Macmillan and Co Ltd, 137-8, 335, 340, 354.