Middleton Hill Iron Age settlement (Wallington Demesne)

Cropmarks of a double-ditched rectilinear enclosure was recorded by air photography as a soilmark on the summit of Middleton Hill in 1989. The enclosure has two banks and ditches and measures about 80m by 75m. It is probably an Iron Age defended settlement.

Reference number:

N10405

Historical period:

Iron Age (800BC to 43AD)

Event(s):

FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1968; R W Emsley
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION, The Archaeology of the Wallington Estate: an air photographic survey 2002; T Gates

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