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Ashley Wood Camp
Hampshire, England · Atlas EN3813
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3813 (3813)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Hampshire
- Historic county
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ashley
- National Grid reference
- SU39403012
- Latitude
- 51.06901
- Longitude
- -1.43907
- Altitude
- 107 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 4.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and environmental material
- Investigations
- Excavation (1931); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1867-1882); Other (1956-1961)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014815
- HER
- Hampshire 25194
- National record
- record SU 33 SE 20; monument 227656
- Wikidata
- Q31117124
Sources
References
- Williams-Freeman, J.P. 1915. An introduction to field archaeology as illustrated by Hampshire, London: Macmillan and Co Ltd, 229-33.
- Williams-Freeman, J.P. 1933. Ashley Roman Camp, Proc Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol Soc, 12, 109-110.
- Second OS Archaeology Field Investigator WCW 24-FEB-56
- (12) General reference
- Coin of Epaticus in Ashmolean Museum (Mack 263) Bagendon 1961 143 (EH Clifford)
- (13) Field Investigators Comments
- Third OS Archaeology Field Investigator GHP 11.07.61
- (14) General reference
- Place Names of Roman Britain 1979 277-8 (A L F Rivet & C Smith)
- (15) General reference
- Bagendon 1961 143 (E M Clifford)
- (16) General reference