Oldbury Camp

Oldbury Camp is the largest Iron Age hill fort in south-eastern England [1]. It was built in the 1st century BC by Celtic British tribes on a hilltop west of Ightham, Kent [1]. The fort comprises a bank and ditch enclosing an area of about 50 hectares, with entrances at the north-east and south ends [1]. Wooden gates barred the entrances [1]. Archaeological excavations carried out in the 1930s and 1980s found that the hill fort's interior had probably not been permanently occupied [1]. Oldbury Camp has been excavated archaeologically twice: once in 1938 by John Bryan Ward-Perkins and again in 1983–84 [1].