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Hascombe Camp
Surrey, England · Atlas EN2578
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2578 (2578)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Surrey
- Historic county
- Surrey
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hascombe
- National Grid reference
- TQ 00450 38650
- Latitude
- 51.13826
- Longitude
- -0.56558
- Altitude
- 190 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
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and quarry hollows
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, animal bones, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1916); Excavation (1931); Geophysical Survey (1975); Other (1975); Geophysical Survey (2008); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Excavation (1975-1977); Earthwork Survey (2008-2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008522
- HER
- Surrey 676
- National record
- record TQ 03 NW 2; monument 393489
- Wikidata
- Q31117612
Sources
References
- Clark, A.J. and Thompson, F.H. 1989. Revised radiocarbon dates for three hillforts in Kent and Surrey, Antiq J, 69, 303-307.
- 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.
- Hooker, R. and English, J. 2009. Hascombe Hillfort. Analytical and magnetometry surveys. Surrey Archaeological Society, privately circulated report (online at: http://www.academia.edu/5565076/Archaeological_survey_of_Hascombe_Hillfort_Surrey)
- Horn, J. Forthcoming. The dating of hillforts in Britain and Ireland. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
- Seager Thomas, M. 2010. A re-contextualization of the prehistoric pottery from the Surrey hillforts of Hascombe, Holmbury and Anstiebury, Surrey Archaeol Coll, 95, 1-33.
- Thompson, F.H. 1979. Three Surrey hillforts: excavations at Anstiebury, Holmbury and Hascombe, 1972-77, Antiq J. 59, 245-318.
- Winbolt, S.E. 1932. Excavations at Hascombe Camp, Godalming, Surrey Archaeol Coll, 40, 78-96.