Monument record 0078300000 - NORBURY CAMP

Summary

Possible Iron Age enclosure or hillfort known from historical records, field survey and aerial photography

Protected Status/Designation

  • Ancient Monument 1017514: NORBURY: A SLIGHT UNIVALLATE HILLFORT IMMEDIATELY EAST OF PADBURY MILL (DBC7196)
  • Planning Notification Area: Iron Age hillfort at Norbury (DBC8849)

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Type and Period (2)

  • DITCHED ENCLOSURE (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC? to 42 AD?)
  • HILLFORT (Early Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 700 BC? to 42 AD?)

Description

Plan Form - SUBCIRCULAR
MARKED NORBURY ON C16 ALL SOULS COLLEGE MAP. IRREGULAR SHAPE & ONLY A SINGLE MOUND & DITCH. MUCH PLOUGHED (B1).
ENCLOSURE, NOT A FORT (B2).
UNDATED; SINGLE RAMPART & DITCH (B3).
SOUTHERN 3RD OF DITCH STILL CLEAR. SCARP ONLY ON W. N SIDE DEFINED BY TRACKWAY TO OLD FORD. INTERIOR BANK BULLDOZED C.1940 (B4).
SCHEDULED (B5).

Sources (5)

  • <1>SBC9847 Bibliographic reference: MYRES J N L 1930 NOTE IN CONGRESSOFARCHAEOLOGICALSOCIETIES,REPORTOF37THCONGRESS1929P11"".
  • <2>SBC10719 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARD SP 73 SW 5 (FILED).
  • <3>SBC11733 Bibliographic reference: PEVSNER N 1960 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE P222.
  • <4>SBC4884 Bibliographic reference: FARLEY M E (BCM) OCT 1984 FIELD VISIT (& INFORMATION FROM MR A CURTIS).
  • <5>SBC14019 Scheduling record: English Heritage. 1998. SCHEDULING LISTS OF INSPECTORATE OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS FEBRUARY 1998.

Location

Grid reference Centred SP 7111 3006 (210m by 150m) (Centred on)
Civil Parish PADBURY, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Related Events/Activities (2)

  • Event - Survey: (EBC14027)
  • Event - Survey: Field visit (EBC15913)

Record last edited

May 20 2015 10:53AM

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