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Cherbury Camp
The location of Cherbury is very unusual in that it is not on a hill but is low lying, the maximum height above sea level being about 70 metres. It is situated on the southern fringes of well-drained Corallian limestones to the south of the Thames, on a tongue of dry land surrounded by wet clays which were once possibly marshy.
The site is oval in plan, 3.6 hectares enclosed area, and originally with three ramparts separated by ditches around the entire circuit, although the outer two are now destroyed on the east.
Excavations in 1939* revealed a substantial inner rampart of sand and rubble with an outer revetment of drystone walling about 6 m wide at the base. The single entrance is in the centre of the eastern side where the revetting wall turned inwards into an entrance passage. Postholes suggested a gate at the outer side of the passage. There was a cobbled roadway into the interior with wheel ruts. There was no excavation within the interior.
The site was probably constructed in the 5th/4th centuries BC and abandoned by the 1st century BC. The finds are in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
*Bradford, J.P.S. 1940. The excavation of Cherbury Camp, 1939. An interim report. Oxoniensia, V, pp.13-20.
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The site is oval in plan, 3.6 hectares enclosed area, and originally with three ramparts separated by ditches around the entire circuit, although the outer two are now destroyed on the east.
Excavations in 1939* revealed a substantial inner rampart of sand and rubble with an outer revetment of drystone walling about 6 m wide at the base. The single entrance is in the centre of the eastern side where the revetting wall turned inwards into an entrance passage. Postholes suggested a gate at the outer side of the passage. There was a cobbled roadway into the interior with wheel ruts. There was no excavation within the interior.
The site was probably constructed in the 5th/4th centuries BC and abandoned by the 1st century BC. The finds are in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
*Bradford, J.P.S. 1940. The excavation of Cherbury Camp, 1939. An interim report. Oxoniensia, V, pp.13-20.
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