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Backbury Camp
Hob Uid: 110051
Location : County of Herefordshire Dormington
Grid Ref : SO5870038900
Summary : Earthwork remains of an Iron Age multivallate hillfort covering 2.8 hectares.
More information : (SO 587389) Backbury Camp (NR) Ethelbert's Camp (NR). (1-2) Ethelbert's Camp. The ground falls away on all sides, the slope being precipitious from the southern half of the camp. The defences consist of triple rampart on the N with medial ditches; the innermost and outermost ramparts are continued along the W face, the latter in an altered and reduced form; an ancient landslide has largely obliterated the defences on the E face. There are 2 entrances, that on the N being formed by the stopping of the two outer ramparts, the curved turning inwards of the inner rampart and the formation of two banks to the E and S of the curved return. The SW entrance is a simple cutting through the single rampart, approached by a natural causeway. (3-4) The camp on Backbury Hill is traditionally associated with St Ethelbert. Bannister could find no historical evidence for this and believed the association "to be a pious fancy of later ages". (5) Name changed to Backbury Camp 1.11.1926. (6) SO 587389 Backbury Camp is as described by RCAHM. Published survey 25" revised. (7) SO 587 389. Backbury (Ethelbert's Camp). Listed in gazetteer as a multivallate hillfort covering 2.8ha. (8) St Ethelbert's Camp. Description and plan. (9)

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Source details : OS 6" 1964
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Source details : RCHM Here 2 1932 71-2
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Source details : APs RAF 106G/UK/1652 3257-8 (July '46)
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Source details : T Woolhope NFC 21-22 1914-1917 223 (A T Bannister)
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Source details : ONB 1927 33 (O G S Crawford)
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Source details : F1 DRB 24-FEB-71
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Source details : BAR 62 British Hill-Forts: An Index 1979 184 (AHA Hogg)
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Source Number : 9
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Source details : VCH Herefordshire 1 1908 209-10
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Iron Age
Display Date : Iron Age
Monument End Date : 43
Monument Start Date : -800
Monument Type : Multivallate Hillfort
Evidence : Earthwork

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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : HE 14
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SO 53 NE 2
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Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1971-02-24
End Date : 1971-02-24

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Backbury Camp