Boddington Camp
| Boddington Camp | |
| Buckinghamshire | |
|---|---|
 The eastern bank of Boddington Camp | |
| Type: | Hillfort |
| Location | |
| Location: | 51°45’46"N, -0°43’24"W |
| History | |
| Built Iron Age | |
| Information | |
Boddington Camp is an Iron Age hill fort found in the woods about a mile east of Wendover in Buckinghamshire. It is a scheduled monument.[1]
Description
The fort is on the summit of Boddington Hill. There is a single rampart and outer ditch, in an oval measuring about 550 yards by 250 yards, oriented north-east to south-west. The interior, area about 15 acres, is heavily wooded. The defences have been destroyed in the north-east, and nothing remains of the probable main entrance here to the fort.[1][2]
In the south and east, where the defences are most noticeable, the bank is about 6 feet above the interior and up to 11 feet above the outer ditch. On the western side, a modern forestry track overlays the outer ditch. At the south-west there is an entrance ramp, thought to be original. A gap on the north-west side is probably modern.[1][2]
Pottery fragments of the 2nd to the 1st centuries BC were found during an excavation of a section through the rampart near the southern entrance.[1]
Outside links
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