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Clare Camp
Suffolk, England ยท Atlas EN3134
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3134 (3134)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Suffolk
- Historic county
- Essex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Clare
- National Grid reference
- TL 7685 4585
- Latitude
- 52.08262
- Longitude
- 0.57975
- Altitude
- 57.9 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 3.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1850); Earthwork Survey (1993); Geophysical Survey (1994); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006046
- HER
- Suffolk CLA010
- National record
- record TL 7 4 NE 10; monument 379249
- Wikidata
- Q31119765
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A, 1984. A Guide to the Hill-forts of Britain. London. 178.
- Page, W. (ed). 1911. The Victoria history of the county of Suffolk, Volume 1, 588-90.
- Payne A. 1994. Geophysical Survey at Clare Camp. Ancient Monuments Laboratory, unpublished report.
- RCHME, 1993. Clare Camp, Clare, Suffolk; an archaeological survey. Unpublished report.