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Dry Hill Camp
Surrey, England ยท Atlas EN2569
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2569 (2569)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Surrey
- Historic county
- Surrey
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lingfield
- National Grid reference
- TQ 4320 4175
- Latitude
- 51.15703
- Longitude
- 0.04637
- Altitude
- 168 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 6
- Enclosed area
- 10 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); In-turned (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metalworking
- Investigations
- Excavation (1932); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Earthwork Survey (1885-1905)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008508
- HER
- Surrey 1269
- National record
- record TQ 44 SW 2; monument 407284
- Wikidata
- Q31117586
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.
- Tebutt, C.F. 1970. Dry Hill Camp, Lingfield. Surrey Archaeol Collect, 67,119-20.
- Winbolt, S.E and Margary, I.D. 1933. Dry Hill Camp, Lingfield. Surrey Archaeol Collect, 41,79-92.