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Chipping Hill Enclosure
Essex, England · Atlas EN3523
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3523 (3523)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Essex
- Historic county
- Essex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Witham
- National Grid reference
- TL 8190 1510
- Latitude
- 51.80490
- Longitude
- 0.63697
- Altitude
- 22 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 10.75 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 3 ha, 10.75 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, timber-framed wall, and other burning
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, human bones, and animal bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1836); Earthwork Survey (1921); Excavation (1988); Excavation (2005); Other (2005); Excavation (2010); Other (2014); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1874-1876); Excavation (1933-1935); Excavation (1969-1971)
Identifiers
- HER
- Essex 8106-8110
- National record
- record TL 81 NW 14; monument 381097
- Wikidata
- Q31117507
Sources
References
- Cotterill, F. 1934. A trial excavation at Witham, Essex. Antiq J 14, 190-91
- Cunliffe, B. and Rowley, T. (eds) 1976. Oppida: the beginnings of urbanisation in Barbarian Europe, BAR Int Ser 11.
- Davison, B.K. 1972. Notes and News. The Burghal Hidage fort of Eorpeburnan: a suggested identification Medieval Archaeol, 16, 123-7
- Ennis, T. 2005. 32a Avenue Road, Witham, Essex. Archaeological Evaluation and Monitoring. Essex County Council Field Archaeology Unit. Unpublished. http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-439-1/dissemination/pdf/essexcou1-8245.pdf. Accessed November 2015
- Flook, R.1989 Excavations in Essex 1988. Witham, Chipping Hill (TL819151) Essex Archaeol Hist, Vol 20, 170
- Newman, J. 2014. Eckard House, Easton Road, Witham, Essex- Archaeological Monitoring Report. John Newman Archaeological Services [assessment & evaluation reports]
- Orr, K. 2005. An archaeological watching brief at 37 Avenue Road, Witham, Essex. Colchester Archaeological Trust [assessment & evaluation reports]
- Repton, J. A. 1844. Proceedings of the Central Committee of the British Archaeological Association Arch J . 1, 393
- Rodwell, W. 1993. The Origins and Early Development of Witham, Essex: a study in settlement and fortification, prehistoric to medieval. Oxbow Monograph 26
- Whimster, R. 1981. Burial Practices in Iron Age Britain. Oxford BAR British Series 90
- Wilson D.M. and Hurst D.G. 1969. Medieval Britain in 1969. Medieval Archaeol, 14, 156
- Wright, T. 1836. The History and Topography of the County of Essex, Vol. I (London)