Monument record 0116800000 - MEDMENHAM CAMP

Summary

Iron Age hillfort known as Medmenham Camp, surviving as earthworks.

Protected Status/Designation

Ancient Monument 1013938: A SLIGHT UNIVALLATE HILLFORT KNOWN AS MEDMENHAM CAMP
Planning Notification Area: Earthworks of Iron Age hillfort at Medmenham Camp

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Type and Period (2)

UNIVALLATE HILLFORT (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

IRON AGE CAMP DEFENDED BY SINGLE BANK & DITCH EXCEPT ON NE WHERE ENTRANCE EVIDENTLY WAS, & THERE ARE 3 BANKS & DITCHES. BANK TO NW RISES 5-6M ABOVE DITCH. E HALF IS CULTIVATED & BANK REDUCED TO C.1M BY PLOUGHING. ON S THE GROUND FALLS STEEPLY & THERE IS A SCARP ONLY (B1-5).
CHALK PITS IN N (B4).
1895 PLAN (B16).
Programme of geophysical survey, topographic survey and dowsing carried out by Archaeology in Marlow from March 2005 to May 2008. 3 profiles across the ramparts and detailed topographic and contour surveys of two areas of the ramparts were carried out. A series of geophysical surveys in the fields within the eastern half of the hillfort failed to identify any traces of internal settlement, although a couple of magnetic anomalies were tentaively interpreted as a possible banjo enclosure [CAS 01168:03]. See reports for detail (B18-19)

Sources (21)

<1>SBC14025 Scheduling record: English Heritage. 1995. SCHEDULING LISTS OF INSPECTORATE OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS NOV 1966: REVISED NOV 1995.
<2>SBC12816 Bibliographic reference: RCHM BUCKS 1 PP256-257.
<3>SBC8027 Bibliographic reference: LYSONS D & S 1813 MAGNA BRITANNIA P493.
<4>SBC4839 Verbal communication: FARLEY M E (BCM) DEC 1976 FIELD VISIT.
<5>SBC11403 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. OS RECORD CARDS SU 88 SW 13,16,18..
<6>SBC12297 Bibliographic reference: A H Plaisted. 1958. 'ROMANCE OF A CHILTERN VILLAGE' PP26-27 & PLAN OPP P8.
<7>SBC7431 Unpublished document: F M Underhill. 1951. LETTER FROM F M UNDERHILL TO J F HEAD.
<8>SBC5714 Verbal communication: GILES COOPER & FARLEY M E (BCM) OCT 1975.
<9>SBC6046 Unpublished document: HAMBLEDEN MUSEUM LOAN COLLECTION.
<10>SBC1684 Article in serial: BERKS ARCH. JNL 57 1959 P123.
<11>SBC903 Unpublished document: BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTER.
<12>SBC11128 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. OS RECORD CARD SU 88 SW 13.
<13>SBC2238 Unpublished document: C H DALWOOD 1984/MDA CARD AYBCM: 327X1983.
<14>SBC12292 Bibliographic reference: A H Plaisted. 1925. MANOR & PARISH RECORDS OF MEDMENHAM PP55-56.
<15>SBC10000 Verbal communication: O'SULLIVAN C & FARLEY M E (BCM) SEPT 1994 (BCM ENTRY FORM 1430).
<16>SBC5552 Bibliographic reference: GADSDEN & TREHERNE, OSBORN & MERCER 1895 THE DANESFIELD ESTATE ON THE BANKS OF THE THAMES NEAR HEN.
<17>SBC19426 Graphic material: David Went (English Heritage MPP Fieldworker). 1995. Medmenham Camp MPP fieldworker's plan.
<18>SBC23163 Bibliographic reference: Archaeology in Marlow. 2008. Archaeology in Marlow's ROMADAM Project (Recording of Marlow and District's Ancient Monuments).
<19>SBC23164 Unpublished document: Archaeology in Marlow. 2008. The ROMADAM Project: Medmenham Iron Age Hill Fort.
<20>SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project: Regions 7 (Thames) and 10 (Warwickshire Avon).
<21>SBC23342 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey: Regions 7 and 10: North of the Thames and Warwickshire Avon.

Location

Grid reference	Centred SU 80692 84677 (305m by 373m)
Civil Parish	MEDMENHAM, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Related Events/Activities (2)

Event - Survey: Geophysical survey, earthwork survey and dowsing (Ref: ROMADAM) (EBC17116)
Event - Survey: Site visit (EBC15927)

Record last edited

Nov 11 2016 2:40PM