Archaeology Notes

Event ID 728372

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NY07NW 15 0417 7876

(Centred: NY 0417 7876) Ancient Earthwork (NAT)

OS 6" map (1953).

Fort with probable double rampart and intervening ditch with an additional rampart over a projecting shoulder to the west, on the top of Camp Hill. From long cultivation the defences are low and inconspicuous. APs (CPE/Scot/UK/282: 3009-10; 27.8.47) show an entrance on the east.

RCAHMS 1920.

The summit of Camp Hill is enclosed by a fort defended by double ramparts with a third short rampart on the SW side. The double ramparts are now reduced to vague crest lines and in places, especially on the east side, are completely destroyed. The third rampart is visible as a broad spread bank c.0.6m high. The entrance was probably on the east side.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (WDJ), 22 June 1966.