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Prittlewell Camp
Southend-on-Sea, England ยท Atlas EN3694
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3694 (3694)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Southend-on-Sea
- Historic county
- Essex
- Parish, community, or townland
- Southend-on-Sea
- National Grid reference
- TQ 8899 8783
- Latitude
- 51.55763
- Longitude
- 0.72494
- Altitude
- 23 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 4.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1895); Excavation (1929); Other (1953); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1955); Other (1961); Earthwork Survey (1998)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017515
- HER
- Essex MEX30257
- National record
- record TQ 88 NE 18; monument 418915
- Wikidata
- Q31119747
Sources
References
- Buckley, J. and Samuels, J. 1996 Archaeological Assessment of Land in the South-East Corner of Southend Airport, Southend-on-Sea, Essex John Samuels Archaeological Consultants. (JSAC/132/96/01).
- Unpublished
- Cathcart King, D.J.1983. Castellarium anglicanum an index and bibliography of the castles in England, Wales and the islands. Volume I : Anglesey - Montgomery, 148
- Cooper, A. and Pattison, P. 1999. Prittlewell Camp, Prittlewell, Essex. Earthwork Survey. August 1998. RCHME
- Mepham, W.A. 1931. Prittlewell camp: report of excavations, 1929. Trans Southend-on-Sea & District Antiq & Hist Soc, 2, 21-47
- Tripp, C.J. 1998. Rochford to Southend Pipeline, Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Archaeological Watching Brief .Essex County Council. Unpublished