Location
- Atlas number
- EN3533 (3533)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Essex
- Historic county
- Essex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Epping Upland
- National Grid reference
- TL 4378 0030
- Latitude
- 51.68301
- Longitude
- 0.07839
- Altitude
- 116 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 6
- Enclosed area
- 5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland
- Water source
- stream
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC, 800–400 BC, and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1768); Excavation (1881); Other (1923); Geophysical Survey (1958); Other (1969); Other (1975); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1870-1872); Excavation (1933-1968)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1013517
- HER
- Essex 24-26
- National record
- record TL 40 SW 6; monument 369868
- Wikidata
- Q31117545
Sources
References
- Alexander, J.A., Cotton, M.A., Mackay, R.R., Hazzledine Warren, S. 1978. Ambresbury Banks, An Iron Age Camp In Epping Forest, Essex: a report of the excavations on 1933, 1956, 1958 and 1968. Essex Archaeol Hist 10, 189-205
- Morant, P. 1768. History and Antiquities of Essex, II London