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South Weald Camp
Essex, England · Atlas EN3517
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3517 (3517)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Essex
- Historic county
- Essex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Brentwood
- National Grid reference
- TQ 5788 9465
- Latitude
- 51.62846
- Longitude
- 0.27963
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1884); Other (1975); Excavation (1990); Earthwork Survey (1994); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1872-1873)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1013833
- HER
- Essex 531
- National record
- record TQ 59 SE 5; monument 411617
- Wikidata
- Q31117533
Sources
References
- Anon. 1889. The Essex Field Club Meeting at Ingatestone, in the Writtle and Blackmore High Woods, and at Writtle Park, Saturday, May 11th, 1889. Essex Natur. Vol 3,
- Isserlin, R. M. J. 1995. Analytical field survey at two Essex "hillforts": South Weald Camp and Langdon Hills. Essex Archaeol Hist. 26, 40-52
- Medlycott, M., Bedwin, O. and Godbold, S. 1995. South Weald Camp _ a probable Late Iron Age hillfort: excavations 1990. Essex Archaeol Hist', 26, 53-64