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Castle Hill, Fort I
Kent, England · Atlas EN3773
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3773 (3773)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kent
- Historic county
- Kent
- Parish, community, or townland
- Capel
- National Grid reference
- TQ 60825 43922
- Latitude
- 51.17187
- Longitude
- 0.29917
- Altitude
- 125 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, other burning, palisade, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1900); Excavation (1929); Other (1959); Other (1965); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Excavation (1969-1971); Other (1969-1971); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005191
- HER
- Kent MKE1116
- National record
- record TQ 64 SW 1; monument 412408
- Wikidata
- Q31117885
Sources
References
- Money, J.H. 1975. Excavations in the two Iron-Age Hill-Forts Castle Hill, Capel, Near Tonbridge 1965 and 1969-71. Archaeol Cantiana, 91, 61-85
- Winbolt, S.E. 1929. Castle Hill Camp Tonbridge. Archaeol Cantiana, 41, 193-5