Monument record 0078300000 - NORBURY CAMP

Summary

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

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

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Type and Period (3)

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?)
SCARP (Iron Age - 800 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).
A ROUGHLY CIRCULAR, UNDATED EARTHWORK; ENCLOSES ABOUT 15 ACRES AND HAS A 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).

A univallate hillfort of possible Iron Age date is visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as extant earthworks and was mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located on the east side of Padbury Mill, to the south of Padbury Brook, Padbury, and centred at SP 71122 30056. Earthworks of banks and ditches forming a subcircular enclosure, approximately 260x230m, are visible on aerial photographs and lidar visualisations. The south east quarter of the earthworks have been removed by a clay pit and brickworks (see MBC14914) and slight ridge and furrow earthworks are visible in the centre, to the north and south of the road to Padbury Mill, which crosses the whole. A 1591 map of Padbury records this enclosure as Norberye, with a sketch of a cross section, and ridge and furrow field systems surround this enclosure. (6-13)

Sources (12)

<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>SBC11706 Bibliographic reference: Nikolaus Pevsner. 1960. The Buildings of England: 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.
<6>SBC26496 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 2023. RAF-106G-UK-1380 RP 3017 09-Apr-1946.
<7>SBC25062 Digital archive: Environment Agency. Environment Agency LiDAR data. LIDAR SP72NW Environment Agency National LIDAR Programme DTM 1 Metre dated 2019 SP7129.
<8>SBC26535 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 1946. RAF/3G/TUD/UK/86 RV 6142 26-Mar-1946.
<9>SBC26575 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 1973. OS-73284 V 264 14-Jun-1973.
<10>SBC26538 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 2007. NMR 24805_001 06-Nov-2007.
<11>SBC25062 Digital archive: Environment Agency. Environment Agency LiDAR data. LIDAR SP7130 Environment Agency 1m DTM Composite 2017-2019 date accessed 25-Feb-2020.
<12>SBC26388 Digital archive: Digital Bodleian. 1586-1605. All Souls College Hovenden I. date accessed 16-Oct-2023 Image I02.

Location

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

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Related Events/Activities (3)

Event - Survey: (EBC14027)
Event - Survey: Aerial investigation and mapping project (Ref: 7768) (EBC18304)
Event - Survey: Field visit (EBC15913)

Record last edited

Oct 27 2024 10:16PM