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Chillerton Down Camp
Isle of Wight, England ยท Atlas EN4232
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4232 (4232)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Isle of Wight
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Gatcombe
- National Grid reference
- SZ 4799 8389
- Latitude
- 50.65265
- Longitude
- -1.32243
- Altitude
- 152 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 5.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1862-1863); Other (1955-1967)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1010012
- HER
- Isle of Wight MIW373
- National record
- record SZ 48 SE 16; monument 460277
- Wikidata
- Q31118130
Sources
References
- Dunning, G.C. 1947. Chillerton Down Camp, Gatcombe, Isle of Wight, (2), Proc Isle of Wight Natur Hist Archaeol Soc, 51-6.
- Wrench, C.L. 2012. Evidence of hillforts on the Isle of Wight, Unpublished paper, University of Oxford.