Monument record 0002201001 - WHELPLEY HILL CAMP

Summary

Entrance causeway across bank and ditch of site formerly thought to be Iron Age or medieval enclosure at Whelpley Hill Camp, now thought to be a Bronze Age ringwork

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  • Ancient Monument 1015485: SLIGHT UNIVALLATE HILLFORT ON WHELPLEY HILL

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Type and Period (1)

  • CAUSEWAY (Early Iron Age to Medieval - 700 BC to 1539 AD)

Description

Sheahan states that there were 5 entrances (B2).
Later sources conflict with this (B1,B4).
Both later sources agree the only entrance is in the SE. The entrance has grown from being slight (B4) to bulldozer width! (B1, note 5).
The gap does not carry across the ditch (B5).

Sources (7)

  • <1>SBC1315 Unpublished document: BCM CAS RECORD CARD 0022..
  • <2>SBC19727 Bibliographic reference: James Joseph Sheahan. 1862. History and Topography of Buckinghamshire. p840.
  • <3>SBC20462 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1925. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume III. Volume 3. p205.
  • <4>SBC20466 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1912. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire. Volume 1. p16.
  • <5>SBC11387 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey. OS RECORD CARDS SP 90 SE 16 (AND 44).
  • <6>SBC14021 Scheduling record: English Heritage. 1996. SCHEDULING LISTS OF INSPECTORATE OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS.
  • <7>SBC13672 Article in serial: 1848. RECS OF BUCKS I P30 ('BB: PAROCHIAL NOTES'). Vol 1.

Location

Grid reference SP 99680 03970 (point)
Civil Parish ASHLEY GREEN, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Nov 4 2024 2:50PM

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