Monument record 0164500000 - BODDINGTON HILL

Plan Form - PEAR SHAPED
OCCUPIES SW FACING SPUR OF CHILTERNS. CONSISTS OF SINGLE BANK, AUGMENTED BY DITCH EXCEPT WHERE STEEPNESS OF SLOPE MAKES IT UNNECESSARY. NE END DESTROYED BY HOUSE & GARDENS (B6).
GAP SW END BUT ORIGINAL ENTRANCE PROBABLY ON NE (B3).
GOOD AP SUGGESTS OUTER DEFENCE /ENCLOSURE ON SE SIDE (B12).
PRE-HILLFORT BA PHASE? (B11).
TOPOGRAPHIC AND GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY, WITH CONSERVATION PROPOSALS (B14).
PRESS CUTTING AND CORRESPONDENCE CONCERNING TREE PLANTING ON BODDINGTON HILLSIDE (B15).

A hillfort Iron Age date is visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as extant earthworks and were mapped as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located in Wendover Woods, Halton, and centred at SP 88232 07997. The hillfort is visible as cleared grassland surrounded by woodland with a 20th century covered reservoir at the centre. Lidar visualisations show earthworks of the ramparts and field systems beyond, in the woodland. The enclosure is approximately 490x210m at it’s longest and widest. The ramparts are not clear northern end of the hillfort and historic mapping shows a farm, Calloway Farm, built in to the area of the fort; this farm has since been demolished and only occasional (frog-less) bricks are visible on the ground in the area (site visited in February 2024). Modern land use of the wider area is woodland and recreation managed by Forestry England. (19-22)