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Castle Hill, Fort Ii
Kent, England · Atlas EN3857
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3857 (3857)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kent
- Historic county
- Kent
- Parish, community, or townland
- Capel
- National Grid reference
- TQ 6078 4384
- Latitude
- 51.17114
- Longitude
- 0.29849
- Altitude
- 126 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.01 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, timber-framed wall, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- woodland and arable
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1909); Excavation (1929); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1959); Other (1965); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Excavation (1969-1971); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005191
- HER
- Kent MKE1116
- National record
- record TQ 64 SW 1; monument 412408
- Wikidata
- Q31117892
Sources
References
- Money, J.H. 1975. Excavations in the two Iron-Age Hill-Forts Castle Hill, Capel, Near Tonbridge 1965 and 1969-71, 91, 61-85
- Winbolt, S.E. 1929. CastleHill Camp Tonbridge. Archaeol Cantiana. 41, 193-5