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War Coppice Camp
Surrey, England · Atlas EN2567
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2567 (2567)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Surrey
- Historic county
- Surrey
- Parish, community, or townland
- Caterham
- National Grid reference
- TQ 3315 5325
- Latitude
- 51.26281
- Longitude
- -0.09300
- Altitude
- 220 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Excavation (1950); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008498
- HER
- Surrey 1233
- National record
- record TQ 35 SW 18; monument 403965
- Wikidata
- Q31117568
Sources
References
- Hamilton, S. and Manley, J. 2001. Hillforts, monumentality and place: a chronological and topographical review of First millennium BC hillforts of South-East England. European J Archaeol, 4(1), 7-42.
- Hope-Taylor, B. 1950. War Coppice Iron Age Camp, Catertham. Surrey Archaeol Collect, 52, 101.
- Malden, H.E. (ed). 1902. The Victoria History of the County of Surrey. Vol 1, 251.