LITTLE CAMP HILL

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Excavations in 1930 located a supposed Norman castle, with inner and outer courts and a rectangular keep. The inner court is surrounded by a wall, while the outer court has a rock cut ditch and bank on one side and the natural slope of the hill on the other. Scheduled. Scarps around the edge of the hill are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs but it is unclear if they relate to the Medieval castle.

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[SO 61740245] OUTPOST [G.S.] (1)

Excavations at Little Camp Hill in 1930, showed it to have been the site of a Norman Castle, consisting of an inner and outer court with a small rectangular keep.

The inner court is surrounded by a wall, while the outer court has a rock-cut ditch and bank on one side and the natural slope of the hill on the other.
No documentary evidence as to the date of the castle has yet been found. (2)

[CASTLE [G.T.] (Site of) [T.I.] (3)

Resurveyed at 1/2,500. Aps 58/676 Nos 4005-6. (4)

Scheduled, RSM Number 28869. (5)

Listed by Cathcart King. (6)

Scarps around the edge of the hill are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs but it is unclear if they relate to the Medieval castle. It is marked as a motte on the current OS 1:10,000 map. A bank, 30m long extends along the northern eastern part of the hill, and is centred at ST 6176 0250. Two scarps, measuring 35m and 30m, extend around the western and northern edge of the hill, and and are centred ST ST 6171 0248. (7)

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( 1) Annotated Record Map

OS 6" 1924.

( 2) The Antiquaries journal : journal of the Society of Antiquaries of London

(D.A.Casey) 11, 1931 Page(s)241-261

( 3) Annotated Record Map

OS 6", 1955.

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 JP 30-OCT-63

( 5) Scheduled Monument Notification

Schedule amendment 20-JUN-2000

( 6) by David J Cathcart King 1983 Castellarium anglicanum : an index and bibliography of the castles in England, Wales and the islands. Volume I : Anglesey - Montgomery

1 Page(s)182

(7) Vertical aerial photograph reference number

RAF 106G/UK/1295 3010-3011 26-MAR-1946

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