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Ampress Camp
Hampshire, England · Atlas EN3808
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3808 (3808)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lymington and Pennington
- National Grid reference
- SZ320970
- Latitude
- 50.77164
- Longitude
- -1.54758
- Altitude
- 4.9 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 2.4 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and environmental material
- Investigations
- Excavation (1959); Other (2001); Other (1961-1982)
Identifiers
- HER
- Hampshire 21841
- National record
- record SZ 39 NW 8; monument 459643
- Wikidata
- Q31117018
Sources
References
- Read, C. 2016. New Forest hillforts and smaller Iron Age enclosures, New Forest History and Archaeology Group, Report No 8, 28-39.
- Robertson-Mackay, R. 1959. Bournemouth Southern Echo , 17.9.
- Taylor K. 2001. Ampress Park, Lymington, Hampshire: an archaeological investigation, Report no. 01/72, Thames Valley Archaeological Services.