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Uphall Camp
Greater London Authority, England · Atlas EN3894
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3894 (3894)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Greater London Authority
- Historic county
- Essex
- National Grid reference
- TQ 4383 8506
- Latitude
- 51.54606
- Longitude
- 0.07295
- Altitude
- 9 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 19.4 ha
- Footprint
- 24 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- 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
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, roundhouses, and rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, human bones, animal bones, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1768); Other (1989); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1892-1905); Excavation (1960-1961); Excavation (1983-1984); Excavation (1987-1989); Ear
Identifiers
- HER
- Greater London MLO22746
- National record
- record TQ 48 NW 34; monument 408130
- Wikidata
- Q31055946
Sources
References
- Crouch W. 1906. Uphall Camp: Notes on Ancient Entrenchments near Barking, on the left bank of the river Roding. Essex Archaeol Hist. New Series ix, 408-412
- Greenwood, P. 2001. Uphall Camp, Ilford - an up-date. London Archaeol. 9, 207-216
- Greenwood, P. 1989. Uphall Camp, Ilford, Essex: an Iron Age fortification. London Archaeol 6, 94-101
- Morant, P. 1768. History of Essex, Vol.I, 1-2
- Starley, D. 1997. An Assesment of Metalworking Debris from Uphall Camp, Ilford, Essex. Ancient Monuments Laboratory Report 4/97. http://services.english-heritage.org.uk/ResearchReportsPdfs/004-1997.pdf accessed Jan 2016
- Telfer, A. 2004. Uphall Camp, Uphall Road, Ilford. A post-excavation assessment. Site Codes HOW60, HOW61, ILF-UC83, ILF-UC87. Museum of London Archaeology Service. http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-1120-1/dissemination/pdf/Documents/PXAs/UELG_pxa01h_IL-UC8387.pdf. Accessed Jan 2016
- Wilkinson, P.M. 1978. Uphall Camp. Essex Archaeol Hist 10, 220-1