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St George's Hill
Surrey, England · Atlas EN2579
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2579 (2579)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Surrey
- Historic county
- Surrey
- Parish, community, or townland
- Walton-on-Thames
- National Grid reference
- TQ 08500 61700
- Latitude
- 51.34398
- Longitude
- -0.44357
- Altitude
- 75 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 6
- Enclosed area
- 5.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
- Water source
- stream
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metalworking
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1804); Earthwork Survey (1889); Excavation (1911); Other (1973); Excavation (1981); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008475
- HER
- Surrey 717
- National record
- record TQ 06 SE 6; monument 394464
- Wikidata
- Q31117615
Sources
References
- Bird, D. 1973. Note in Surrey Archael Bulletin, 100.
- Gardner, E. 1911. The British stronghold of St. George's Hill, Weybridge. Surrey Archaeol Coll, 24, 40-55.
- 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.
- Lowther, A. 1950. Iron Age pottery from St. George's Hill Camp, Weybridge. Surrey Archaeol Coll, 51, 144-7.
- Poulton, R. and O'Connell, M. 1984. St George's hillfort: excavations in 1981. Surrey Archaeol Coll, 75, 275-80.