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Ring Hill Camp
Essex, England ยท Atlas EN3692
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3692 (3692)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Essex
- Historic county
- Essex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Littlebury
- National Grid reference
- TL 5155 3818
- Latitude
- 52.02130
- Longitude
- 0.20729
- Altitude
- 97 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
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 4.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1768); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1877); Other (1923); Other (1969); Other (1989); Earthwork Survey (1995); LiDAR Survey (2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011473
- HER
- Essex 151
- National record
- record TL 53 NW 5; monument 373665
- Wikidata
- Q31117560
Sources
References
- Morant, P. 1768. History and Antiquities of Essex, II London
- Neville, R.C. 1854. Ancient Cambridgeshire: A Comprehensive survey of vestiges of Early Occupation in Cambridgeshire and Adjacent Parts of Essex, Chiefly the Result of Personal Observation. Arch J. 11, 214
- Oswald, A. 1999. A hillfort on Ring Hill, Littlebury, Essex. In P. Pattison, D. Field and S. Ainsworth (eds) Patterns of the Past: Essays in Landscape Archaeology for Christopher Taylor, 23-28.