Site Name: Wick Ball Camp
Civil Parish: Dinton
Grid Ref: 400040, 131970

Description:
An Iron Age hillfort. A trench was excavated through it in 1923.

Details:
A hillfort, univallate on the North and West sides. Dr RCC Clay says he proved it to be Iron-Age by a cutting excavated in 1923 but says 'no result' on his annotated map. A flint scraper from the excavation is in Salisbury Museum.


Sources:

Victoria County History 1 1 265(93) 1957 Grinsell, L.V.
Salisbury Museum 1947.134 ; Corr 6 inch Map H de Shortt 12 2 1957 1947 Salisbury Museum
Salisbury Museum Annotated Maps RCC Clay Sheet Lxv Clay, R C C; Salisbury Museum
Devizes Museum 1995.64 1995 Devizes Museum

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