Scratchbury Camp
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Sep 19, 2024 06:35 PM
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Scratchbury Camp, Wiltshire, England, is the site of a 15 hectare hill fort.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/103500678
51.196172315, -2.12929195488
- Representative Locations:
- location of Scratchbury Camp hill fort (800 BC - AD 100) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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fort, tower (deprecated)
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As with many Iron Age sites, the chronology of Scratchbury Camp has been debated. Multi-period reuse of hill forts often makes precise dating difficult, if not impossible. Some Pre-Roman Iron Age sites in Britannia saw re-use following the Roman conquest.
Jeffrey Becker, 'Scratchbury Camp : a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/103500678> [accessed: 21 January 2025]
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