Location
- Atlas number
- EN2576 (2576)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Surrey
- Historic county
- Surrey
- Parish, community, or townland
- Shere
- National Grid reference
- TQ 10800 44700
- Latitude
- 51.19073
- Longitude
- -0.41583
- Altitude
- 185 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and unfinished work
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (2013); Excavation (1985-1986)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1007984
- HER
- Surrey 2970
- National record
- record TQ 14 SW 23; monument 963712
- Wikidata
- Q17905087
Sources
References
- Field, D. 1989. Felday, Holmbury St. Mary: an earthwork enclosure of the 1st Century AD. Surrey Archaeol Coll, 80, 99-116.
- 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.
- Hanworth, R. 1987. The Iron Age in Surrey, in Bird, J. and Bird, D.G. (eds) The archaeology of Surrey to 1540. Guidford: Surrey Archaeological Society.
- Newell, J. and Winser, K. 2103. Felday World War 1 Prisoner of War camp, an archaeological survey. Online at: http://academia.edu/5568657/Archaeological_survey_of_Felday_Iron_Age_enclosure_and_WW1_Po_W_Camp_Dorking_Surry_UK