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Ranscombe Camp
East Sussex, England · Atlas EN3729
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3729 (3729)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Sussex
- Historic county
- Sussex
- Parish, community, or townland
- South Malling
- National Grid reference
- TQ437091
- Latitude
- 50.86402
- Longitude
- 0.04194
- Altitude
- 128 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and unfinished work
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, timber-laced wall, and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Excavation (1878); Other (1975); Excavation (1976); Excavation (1959-1960); Earthwork Survey (2005-2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014528
- HER
- East Sussex MES1448
- National record
- record TQ 40 NW 8; monument 405859
- Wikidata
- Q31117781
Sources
References
- Bedwin, O.1978. The excavation of a Romano-British site at Ranscombe Hill, South Malling, East Sussex, 1976, Sussex Archaeol Collect., 116 241-55.
- Burstow, G.P. and Holleyman, G.A. 1960. Ranscombe Camp, nr Glynde. First season's excavations, Sussex N & Q, 15(5), 156-57.
- Burstow, G.P. and Holleyman, G.A. 1961. Ranscombe Camp, near Glynde. Sussex N & Q, 15(7), 233-35.
- Burstow, G.P. and Holleyman, G.A. 1964. Excavations at Ranscombe Camp 1959-60, Sussex Archaeol Collect., 102, 55-67.
- Lane Fox, A. 1881. Excavations at Mount Caburn Camp, near Lewes, conducted in September and October, 1877, and July 1878, Arch, 46, 2, 471-76.