Monument record 0003000000 - NORBURY CAMP, LT HORWOOD

Dimensions - Width 0130 Length 0122 m
Plan Form - RECTANGULAR
An undated rectangular earthwork consisting of a single bank and ditch enclosing about 3 acres. To the SW an original entrance rampart and ditch turning outwards on each side, with a second entrance on the NE. 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 "Norbury Camp" sectioned in August 1910; no dateable material found (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)



(SP 79943129) Earthwork (NAT) (B10).
A sub-rectangular earthwork situated in ploughland on a low ridge. It measures internally c 130.0m NE-SW by c 90.0m transversely. Annual ploughing has reduced the bank and ditch to a single outward-facing scarp, 0.6m average height, and there is now no trace of entrances. There is no evidence to indicate the date and purpose of the earthwork, though it appears non-defensive. No documentary sources found. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 (B11).
The cropmark remains of the large rectilinear enclosure described by the previous authorities can be seen on aerial photographs taken in 2011 centred at SP 7994 3129. The enclosure is defined by a broad ditch with hints of a bank on the inner side of the the ditch clearly visible in the cropmark on the southern and eastern sides. There appears to be an opening in the ditch of the western side (the shortest side) which may be an entrance or just a failure of the cropmark. A modern field boundary cuts through the northern third of the enclosure (8).
NRHE insert 2014 (B12).