Site Name: Battlesbury Camp
Civil Parish: Warminster
Grid Ref: 389820, 145620

Description:
An Iron Age hillfort excavated by Mrs Cunnington in 1922.

Details:

A) Multivallate hillfort of 24 acres.

B )Excavated by Maud Cunnington 1922. Nine storage pits.

C) Pottery found.

D) Five sherds of pottery.

Sources:

D) A8/215176 1971
A) Victoria County History 1 1 270 1957 Grinsell, L.V.
B) Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 42, p368-73 Cunnington, M E
C) Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 57, p103
D) Warminster Museum - WAMDM:D158 Warminster Museum
D) Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 43, p400
D) Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 47, p285
D) Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 72-3, p177-8
D) Devizes Museum 3:57:277 1957 Devizes Museum
D) Fldwk J Willoughby 4.1983 1983 Willoughby, Gen Sir John
D) Devizes Museum Cat3 90-2 1934 Cunnington, M E; Goddard, E H
D) Antiquity Journal Vol 2, p378-9

Data supplied by the Wiltshire Sites and Monuments Record Office.

Recommended books on hill forts;
Danebury Hillfort ~ Barry Cunliffe
Hillforts of England and Wales ~ James Dyer
Cadbury Castle - The Hillfort and Landscapes ~ Richard Tabor
The Wessex Hillfort Project ~ Andrew Payne, Mark Corney and Barry Cunliffe
Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park ~ Stewart Ainsworth and Trevor Pearson
Celtic Fortifications ~ Ian Ralston