Monument record 0003000000 - NORBURY CAMP, LT HORWOOD
Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- Planning Notification Area: Site of Iron Age settlement
- SHINE: Norbury Camp. Rampart and ditch earthwork enclosure of probable Iron Age to Roman date.
Map
Type and Period (3)
- BANK (EARTHWORK) (Early Iron Age to 5th Century Roman - 700 BC? to 409 AD?)
- DEFENDED ENCLOSURE? (Early Iron Age to 5th Century Roman - 700 BC? to 409 AD?)
- SUBRECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE (Early Iron Age to 5th Century Roman - 700 BC? to 409 AD?)
Description
Dimensions - Width 0130 Length 0122 m
Plan Form - RECTANGULAR
ALMOST RECTANGULAR WORK CONSISTING OF SINGLE RAMPART & DITCH, ENCLOSING C3 ACRES. ORIG ENTRANCE ON SW RAMPART & DITCH, TURNING OUTWARDS FOR C45YDS. 2ND ENTRANCE ON NE (B4).
EARTHWORK, C8 ACRES; POSSIBLY ROMAN, BUT NOTHING ROMAN FOUND IN VICINITY (B2).
SURVEYED AND EXCAVATED 1910 (B3).
SURVEY 1:2500, CAS FILE (B5)
A subrectangular enclosure of Iron Age/Roman date is visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data levelled earthworks and cropmarks and was mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located approximately 650m north east of Wood End, Little Horwood, and centred at SP 79919 31299. Subrectangular enclosure is visible as levelled earthworks in 1940s as land use was already arable; within Whaddon Chase up until it was inclosed in 1840 probably within Norbury Coppice, which is much larger than the surviving woodland approximately 150m to the south, but it is not mapped separately. In 1946 the enclosure appears to be a soilmark or maybe a low earthwork and is crossed by a field boundary shown on historic mapping and probably dating from the inclosure of the Chase. An enclosure to the south west is a similar size but its relationship to this enclosure, if any, is not clear. (6-9)
Sources (9)
- <1>SBC249 Article in serial: J Y Akerman. 1850. AKERMAN J Y 1850 IN NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE 12 PP3-4.
- <2>SBC302 Bibliographic reference: ALLCROFT AH 1908 EARTHWORKS OF ENGLAND P310.
- <3>SBC1709 Article in serial: James Berry & William Bradbrook. 1911. 'EXCAVATIONS AT NORBURY CAMP, WHADDON CHASE', IN RECS OF BUCKS 10 PP106-121,.
- <4>SBC20467 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1913. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire. Volume 2. p178.
- <5>SBC10717 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARD SP 73 SE 1 (FILED).
- <6>SBC25772 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 1946. RAF/3G/TUD/UK/86 RV 6135 26-Mar-1946.
- <7>SBC25770 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 1947. RAF/CPE/UK/2097 RP 3124 28-05-1947.
- <8>SBC25922 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 2011. NMR 27164_021 15-Jul-2011.
- <9>SBC25062 Digital archive: Environment Agency. Environment Agency LiDAR data. LIDAR SP7933 Environment Agency 1m DTM Composite 2021 date accessed 18-May-2022.
Location
| Grid reference | SP 7992 3129 (point) |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | LITTLE HORWOOD, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire |
Finds (0)
Related Monuments/Buildings (0)
Related Events/Activities (3)
- Event - Survey: Aerial investigation and mapping project (Ref: 7768) (EBC18304)
- Event - Intervention: Excavation trial trenching and topographic earthwork survey (EBC14406)
- Event - Survey: Topographic earthwork survey (EBC1059)
Record last edited
Oct 14 2024 1:56PM
