(NU 08800770) Camp. (1)

An imperfect intrenchment c.60 yards in diameter. (2)(3)

This earthwork is situated on the northern slope of a hill and consists of a double bank and ditch of semi-circular form. The inner bank is 5m average width and from 0.4m to 3m high - the strongest side is to the south. The outer bank has an average width of 3m and is from ground level to 0.5m high - the average depth of the ditch is 1.2m. There is a circular depression within the earthwork at its northern side, whcih is probably a modern work.
At the south-east side of the earthwork opposite the eastern end of the sough bank and ditch there is a natural bank which runs north-south and helps to complete the perimeter of the earthwork, thus forming a small enclosure. Between the natural bank and the a/m eastern end of the south bank, a hollow way 10m wide runs down the hill and leads into the enclosure; thus, if the enclosure were a stock enclosure, the hollow way would form an ideal !funnel! into which stock could be led from the hill above into the enclosure. (4)

There are ...[?] signs of habitation to be seen adjacent to this earthwork - which is probably native in construction. An ample water supply is available in the vicinity. (5)

One of a small number of pre-Roman Iron Age earthworks situated on slopes which have been included as a separate category. They are circular or oval in form, having an internal area consistent with that of the forts and settlements, and are mainly univallate, with an internal mound, median ditch, and counterscarp bank in fairly typical fashion. They possess few other distinguishing features that would assist in placing them in a context, and it is conceivable that some may be no more than stock enclosures. (6)

Enlargement at 1:2500. (7)

The remains of a much mutilated enclosure originally about 74m east-west by 54m north-south between the centres of its internal bank which is now extant around the south-west but is vaguely discernible around the remainder of the perimeter. Around the uphill side in the west a ditch and outer bank are well defined but is is impossible to determine if this continued around the east half as there is now no trace. The sunken way entering the enclosure from the uphill side in the south is possibly contemporary but there is no trace of it continuing. As stated by 4, a possible entrance may have been in the east side but as this is most probably a modern mutilation. The surrounding area is covered by rig and furrow (and contemporary field banks one of which crosses the enclosure in the north) but it does not appear to have encroached on the enclosure in the east which may have explained the slightness of the features on this side. As there is no apparent explanationfor the difference in the two sides it is possible that the enclosure (which was possibly an Iron Age/Romano-British settlement rather than simply a stock enclosure though no internal features are discernible apart from the depression in the north mentioned by 4) was never properly completed.
Surveyed at 1:10,000. (8)

Scheduled. (9)

NU 088 082; NU 087 077. Two camps N of Rough Castles. Scheduled No ND/426. (10a)