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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Cholesbury Camp Alternative Name: The Danish CampCountry: England County: Buckinghamshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Berkhamstead Nearest Village: Buckland Common
Map Ref: SP930072 Landranger Map Number: 165
Latitude: 51.755779N Longitude: 0.654045W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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The hillfort is roughly oval in plan and measures approximately 310m north east to south west by 230m north west to south east. The interior of the hillfort is quite level. The earthen ramparts lie mostly within a wooded belt which encircles all but the southern quarter of the hillfort, where the banks and ditches have been obscured by houses and gardens.
Cholesbury Camp survives well; the interior has seen little disturbance and the greater part of the defences remain largely unaltered. It is one of the most visually impressive prehistoric settlements of the Chilterns, and one of the few in the region to have seen a sample excavation. The interior wasshown to contain well-preserved buried remains from the period of occupation, with evidence of metal-working.
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