Banbury Hill

Banbury Hillfort, or Banbury Hill Camp, is an Iron Age hillfort, about 1.25 mi south of Sturminster Newton and 1 mi north-west of the village of Okeford Fitzpaine in Dorset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Description
The fort is on a low hill: a single bank encloses a roughly circular area of about 1.2 ha. The site has been affected in the past by ploughing. Where best preserved, the rampart is 15 m wide and 0.5 m above the interior, with an external ditch, visible in places, of width 8 m and depth 1.5 m.

There is an original entrance on the west side, protected by an external bank 15 m wide and 1 m high, with traces of an external ditch. This bank, branching out from the north west part of the rampart, runs south-west and then curves towards the fort, so that there is a passage into the fort from the south, at one point down to about 2 m wide.

There are no traces of remains in the interior.

The rampart (ascertained as a result of excavation in 1986 of a trench for a water pipe) has been found to be of local limestone, with some fragments of flint and chert.