Sandy House camp (Ewart)
Cropmarks of native settlement. Aerial photograph shows large circular multivallate enclosure. [NT 93153218]. (1) (5c-q)
The site falls in an arable field and there are no surface traces apart from a slight ground swelling along side the hedge on the north-west side, and a raised area in the centre of the field. (2)
A multivallate fort occupies gently sloping ground at 65m OD. At their maximum extent, the defences have consisted of three, or even four, more or less concentric ditches. The site is roughly oval on plan with a maximum overall diameter of 180m NW-SE by 150m NE-SW. An entrance is visible in the SE quadrant and on either side of it the ditches are slightly everted. Additionally there is some suggestion that the outermost pair of ditches to the S of the entrance may have joined to form a hairpin end. Within the innermost ditch, and concentric with it, runs what could be either a single line of palisade trench or the timber revetment for a box rampart. This putative palisade is oval in shape with measurements of the order of 110m NW-SE by 90m NE-SW and an internal area c. 0.8ha. Within the area enclosed by the defences, the sites of at least three timber round houses can be distinguished. [See parish folder]. (3)(4) (5b)
NT 931 321. Sandy House camp. Scheduled No ND/533. (5a)
The site has been mapped from the air as part of the Milfield Geoarchaeology Project. (See archive object MD000295) (5)
The site falls in an arable field and there are no surface traces apart from a slight ground swelling along side the hedge on the north-west side, and a raised area in the centre of the field. (2)
A multivallate fort occupies gently sloping ground at 65m OD. At their maximum extent, the defences have consisted of three, or even four, more or less concentric ditches. The site is roughly oval on plan with a maximum overall diameter of 180m NW-SE by 150m NE-SW. An entrance is visible in the SE quadrant and on either side of it the ditches are slightly everted. Additionally there is some suggestion that the outermost pair of ditches to the S of the entrance may have joined to form a hairpin end. Within the innermost ditch, and concentric with it, runs what could be either a single line of palisade trench or the timber revetment for a box rampart. This putative palisade is oval in shape with measurements of the order of 110m NW-SE by 90m NE-SW and an internal area c. 0.8ha. Within the area enclosed by the defences, the sites of at least three timber round houses can be distinguished. [See parish folder]. (3)(4) (5b)
NT 931 321. Sandy House camp. Scheduled No ND/533. (5a)
The site has been mapped from the air as part of the Milfield Geoarchaeology Project. (See archive object MD000295) (5)
N2027
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1966; E C Waight
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