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St Ann's Hill
Surrey, England · Atlas EN2577
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2577 (2577)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Surrey
- Historic county
- Surrey
- Parish, community, or townland
- Chertsey
- National Grid reference
- TQ 0265 6758
- Latitude
- 51.39792
- Longitude
- -0.52584
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 4.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Excavation (1990); Earthwork Survey (1994); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1937-1961)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016204
- HER
- Surrey 590
- National record
- record TQ 06 NW 14; monument 394403
- Wikidata
- Q31117610
Sources
References
- Bird, D., Crocker, G. and McCracken, J. 1991. Archaeology in Surrey 1988-1989. Surrey Archaeol Coll, 81, 153.
- 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.
- Needham, S. 1987. The Bronze Age, in J. Bird and D.G. Bird (eds), The archaeology of Surrey to 1540. Surrey Archaeological Society, 97-137.
- McOmish, D. and Field, D. 1994. A survey of the earthworks at St. Ann's Hill, Chertsey. Surrey Archaeol Coll, 82, 223-4.