Bigbury Camp

Bigbury Camp (formerly Bigberry Camp) is a univallate hill fort in the parish of Harbledown and Rough Common in Kent in England [1]. Bigbury Camp is the only confirmed Iron Age hill fort in east Kent [1]. Bigbury Camp is located on a hill 3.2 kilometres west of Canterbury and is situated on a minor road between the A2 and A28 roads [1]. The fort covers an area of 10.7 hectares, including a northern annex covering 3.2 hectares that may have been a cattle enclosure [1]. The fort has a single 4.8-metre wide defensive ditch with a raised bank on the inner side and a lower counterscarp bank [1]. Digging at Bigbury has unearthed a number of iron artefacts including agricultural tools and kitchen utensils [1]. The site had experienced a long period of occupation during the Iron Age before the arrival of the Romans [1]. The hill fort appears to have been first occupied around 350 BC, although the ditch-and-rampart defences were not built until the 2nd century BC [1].