(NT 97943541) Hill Fort. (1)

An oval camp with three ramparts and an entrance on the west side. (2)

Listed as a probable pre-Roman multivallate earthwork. (3)

Scheduled. (4)

The earthwork is complete, except on the north side where the modern road has obliterated part of the outer rampart, and on the south side where the centre and outer ramparts have been levelled for afforestation. Published survey (25 inch) revised. (5)

Generally as described and in good condition. See G.P's AO/55/287/5 and 6. Published survey (25 inch) revised. (6)

NT979354: Parts of the ramparts, the interior and the entrance of the Iron Age multivallate hillfort at Fenton Hill was excavated in 1971 and 1972 by C Burgess. The fort's defences were built in three phases. Phase one was a palisaded enclosure of Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age date. There were indications that it was rather smaller than the initial rampart. Phase two was the construction of the univallate site site consisting of a rampart and ditch. The rampart was constructed of earth and its front face was timber revetted. Evidence was found of quarry ditches behind the rampart. Phase three was the construction of of the middle and outer rampart of the now multivallate site. The middle rampart was revetted with timber set in stone packed trenches rather than individual post holes which was the case with the inner rampart. The outer rampart was of simple dump construction and has been interpreted as a counterscarp bank. The fort's entrance consisted of a simple causeway with an entrance passage four metres wide lined with vertical timbers with a roadway of fine cobbling. There was no indication of a gate structure.
Two buildings were excavated in the fort's interior, one was nine metres in diameter the other ten. They were constructed of timber walls standing in irregular stone filled trenches. Near the centre of the fort's interior an extensive sunken cobbled area was exposed; its curved margin edged by post holes 1.5m apart. Finds from the site included sherds of coarse hand made and decorated pottery and a fine flint blade. (7) (11a)

Later Iron Age kitchen enclosure built over palisaded site associated with early Iron Age pottery and artifacts. (8)

Iron Age ard, or ploughmarks, found at Fenton hillfort. (9)

Enclosed timber-built settlement with contemporary cord rig, extent unknown. Cord rig earlier than the fort. (10)

NT 979 354. Fenton Mill [sic]. Listed in gazetteer as a multivallate hillfort covering 0.36ha. (11b)

NT 979 354. Fentonhill camp. Scheduled No ND/233. (11c)