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Lodge Wood Camp

Newport, Wales · Atlas WA1800

Lodge Wood Camp is a contour fort in Caerleon, Newport, Wales.

Other names on the record: Lodge Hill Camp and Belinstock.

It is recorded as extant, with a partial bivallate and partial multivallate rampart form, surface evidence of earthen bank and rubble, and an enclosed area of 2.2 hectares.

Banks or ramparts are the remains most likely to be visible.

The topographic record places it on a ridge and at 120 m.

The aspect is recorded as level.

Recorded land use includes woodland and scrub or bracken.

Dating evidence is recorded for 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50 (Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology). Reliability is recorded as B - Medium.

A scheduled monument number is recorded (MM023).

Location

Atlas number
WA1800 (1800)
Country
Wales
Current county or unitary authority
Newport
Historic county
Monmouthshire
Parish, community, or townland
Caerleon
National Grid reference
ST32309130
Latitude
51.61639
Longitude
-2.97923
Altitude
120 m

Form and condition

Type
contour fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
partial bivallate and partial multivallate
Complete rampart circuit
Yes
Number of ramparts
5
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 3, SE 2, SW 5, NW 3
Number of ditches
5
Possible original entrances
2
Breaks through the ramparts
2
Enclosed area
2.2 ha
Enclosure areas
0.4 ha, 2.2 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank and rubble
Enclosing works, excavated
earthen bank, stone wall, and timber-laced wall
Also recorded
guard chambers, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
Entrance forms
Blocked (West); Recesses/Guard Chambers (West); Oblique (South east)

Landscape

Topographic position
ridge
Aspect
level
Land use
woodland and scrub or bracken

Dating

Dating
800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
Dating evidence
Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
Dating reliability
B - Medium

Interior and investigation

Interior surface
quarry hollows
Interior excavation
postholes, rectangular structures, and quarry hollows
Finds
pottery, metal, metalworking, animal bones, lithics, and environmental material
Investigations
1st Identified Map Depiction (1801); 1st Identified Written Reference (1801); Other (1833); Other (1886); Other (1910); Other (1991); Excavation (2000); Other (2005)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
MM023
HER
Glamorgan Gwent 00597g
National record
record ST 39 SW; monument 93396
Wikidata
Q31055870

Sources

References

  1. Coxe, W. 1801. An Historical Tour of Monmouthshire.
  2. Gerrard, C., Wiggins, H., and Evans, E. 2006. Prehistoric defended enclosures in Glamorgan with recommendations for fieldwork: Year 3 Report, GGAT Report No. 2006/089, Project No. GGAT78, Swansea: GGAT.
  3. Howell, R. 2006. Searching for the Silures, an Iron Age tribe in south-east Wales, Stroud: Tempus.
  4. Pollard, J, Howell, R, Chadwick, A. and Leaver, A. 2006. Lodge Hill Camp, Caerleon and the hillforts of Gwent, British Archaeological Reports, BAR British Series 407, Oxford.
  5. Savory, H.N. 1950. List of hill-fort and other earthworks in Wales, II. Monmouthshire, Bull Board Celtic Stud, 13, 233.
  6. Whittle, E. 1992. A Guide to ancient and historic Wales - Glamorgan and Gwent, London: HMSO.