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Honington Camp
Lincolnshire, England · Atlas EN2850
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2850 (2850)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Lincolnshire
- Historic county
- Lincolnshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Honington
- National Grid reference
- SK 95409 42339
- Latitude
- 52.96991
- Longitude
- -0.58074
- Altitude
- 114 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.58 ha
- Footprint
- 1.22 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heath
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metal
- Investigations
- Geophysical Survey (2002); Earthwork Survey (2003); Other (2003); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005019
- HER
- Lincolnshire 30366
- National record
- record SK 94 SE 1; monument 325900
- Wikidata
- Q31112812
Sources
References
- Grantham Archaeology Group, 2003, Honington Camp Hill Fort: Geophysical Survey (Resistance). Intervention Report. Unpublished
- Umpleby, G. H. 2003. A Chronology and Interpretation of Honington Camp, Kesteven. MA dissertation, unpublished