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Squerryes Park Camp
Kent, England · Atlas EN3772
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3772 (3772)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kent
- Historic county
- Kent
- Parish, community, or townland
- Westerham
- National Grid reference
- TQ 4427 5227
- Latitude
- 51.25135
- Longitude
- 0.06600
- Altitude
- 173 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 4.45 ha
- Footprint
- 7.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South west); In-turned (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and hillslope
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and quarry hollows
- Finds
- pottery and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1886); Earthwork Survey (1886); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1909); Other (1946); Excavation (1961); Other (1963); Excavation (1970)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005180
- HER
- Kent MKE90
- National record
- record TQ 45 SW 30; monument 407515
- Wikidata
- Q31117881
Sources
References
- Dimbleby, G.W. 1970. Pollen Analysis. In N. Piercy-Fox, The Iron Age Camp at Squerryes, Westerham. Archaeol Cantiana 32-33
- Philps, B. 1970. The Iron Age Hillfort at Squerryes Park, Westerham. Kent Archaeol Rev 22.
- Piercy Fox, N. 1970 Excavations of the Iron Age Camp at Squerryes, Westerham. Archaeol Cantiana 85, 29-33 illus figs 1-3
- Robertson, S. 1886. Squerryes Court, the Camp and the Pictures. Archaeol Cantiana 16. 134-141