Rybury Camp Hillfort, Wiltshire

Iron Age bivallate hillfort overlying a Neolithic causewayed camp. The ditch was excavated in 1963.

Ditch averages 1.5m deep, counterscarp bank 1.1m to the SE is an unfinished rampart. Possible entrance to South. A trench was dug across the ditch by Desmond Bonney in 1963 and revealed that it was flat bottomed and 2.1m deep. The silts contained over 600 flint flakes.

Location

OS map reference: SU 0832 6396. Nearest town/village: Allington.

Information © Wiltshire County Council.

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