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Caesar's Camp
Surrey, England · Atlas EN2570
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2570 (2570)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Surrey
- Historic county
- Surrey
- Parish, community, or townland
- Farnham
- Also recorded in
- Hampshire
- National Grid reference
- SU 83540 50104
- Latitude
- 51.24395
- Longitude
- -0.80456
- Altitude
- 175 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- SE 3, SW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 10.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, palisade, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hornwork (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Excavation (1970); LiDAR Survey (2015); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1601-1700)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1007895
- HER
- Surrey 1425
- National record
- record SU 85 SW 1; monument 247709
- Wikidata
- Q31117588
Sources
References
- Festing, J. 1862-3. A survey of Aldershot District.
- 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.
- Riall, N. 1983. Excavations at Caesar's Camp. Aldershot, Hampshire, Proc Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol Soc., 39, 47-56.