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Holwood Camp
Greater London Authority, England · Atlas EN3895
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3895 (3895)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Greater London Authority
- Historic county
- Kent
- National Grid reference
- TQ 4223 6390
- Latitude
- 51.35632
- Longitude
- 0.04130
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 7
- Enclosed area
- 17.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, timber-laced wall, other burning, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland and parkland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1790); 1st Identified Written Reference (1880); Other (1935); Other (1964); Geophysical Survey (1997); Earthwork Survey (1997); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871-1872); Excavation (1956-1957); Excavation (1997-1999)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002023
- HER
- Greater London MLO18021
- National record
- record TQ 46 SW 5; TQ46SW 20; monument 407826; 407871
- Wikidata
- Q31056124
Sources
References
- Knight, M. 2000 Archaeological Investigations at The Holwood Estate, Bromley. Interim Statement. (Report No. 372). Cambridge Archaeological Unit. 2000. Unpublished
- Pattison, P. 1997. Caesar's Camp Survey: July 1997. RCHME
- Piercy Fox, N. 1957. An interim note on the excavation of Caesar's Camp, Keston. Arch Cant 71, 243-5
- Piercy Fox, N. 1969. Caesar's Camp, Keston. Arch Cant 89, 185-199
- Smith, C.R. 1880. Holwood and Keston. Arch Cant 13, 1-7