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Bussock camp is an Iron Age hillfort located in Berkshire. The site comprises a univallate earthwork comprising a single bank and ditch enclosure, characteristic of defensive settlements constructed during the later prehistoric period. The monument survives as an upstanding earthwork that preserves evidence of the fortified settlement strategy employed in southern Britain during the Iron Age, when such hillforts served as centres of territorial control, refuge, and communal activity.
Bussock camp is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1006984. View the official record →
Bussock camp is an Iron Age hillfort located in Berkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1006984.
Bussock camp is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1006984.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Donnington Castle: a quadrangular castle and 17th century fieldwork. (3.4 km), Bowl barrow 670m east of Rowbury Farm (3.5 km), Grimsbury Castle (4.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bussock camp's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Bussock camp stands on Thames Group, bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.