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Asheldham Camp
Essex, England · Atlas EN3451
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3451 (3451)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Essex
- Historic county
- Essex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Asheldham
- National Grid reference
- TL 9725 0125
- Latitude
- 51.67532
- Longitude
- 0.85150
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 3.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and timber-framed wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop, cliff, plateau edge, or scarp, and lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
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, metal, human bones, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1923); Other (1963); Other (1979); Excavation (1985); Earthwork Survey (1985); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1897-1898)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014142
- HER
- Essex 12051
- National record
- record TL 90 SE 3; monument 383385
- Wikidata
- Q31117515
Sources
References
- Anon. 1985. Recent Work of the County Archaeological Section. Essex Archaeol Hist News 92, 5-6
- Bedwin, O, 1991. Asheldham Camp An Early Iron Age Hill Fort: The 1985 Excavations. Essex Archaeol Hist. Vol. 22, 13-37
- Bedwin, O, 1985. Asheldham Camp 1985. Essex Archaeol Hist. Vol. 16, 14
- Couchman, C.R. 1979. Work of the County Council Archaeological Section, 1978. Essex Archaeol Hist. Vol 11, 70
- Laver, P.G. 1930. Surecastre, or the camp at Asheldham. Essex Archaeol Hist. Vol 19, New Ser, 183-4
- Priddy, D. 1986. Excavations in Essex 1985. Essex Archaeol Hist. Vol 17, 156
- Priddy, D. 1982. Work of the County Council Archaeological Section, 1981. Essex Archaeol Hist. Vol 14, 117