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Multi-periodSite Name: Chipping Hill EnclosureCountry: England County: Essex Type: Misc. Earthwork
Map Ref: TL819151
Latitude: 51.804946N Longitude: 0.636938E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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JohnLindsay visited on 10th Nov 2014 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4 The Witham report is published as Oxbow manuscript 26, Rodwell, which makes it a bit harder to find than usual, but WorldCat now makes a considerable difference. It is in Witham, and Witham has an email .gov.uk address, so I'm going to try using these for retrieval.
There are walks guides to the Blackwater Valley, and a Tourism Information Centre, but nothing mentioning Rodwell or the hillfort, or picnic site, as you would have it.
The recovery from 1844 is in Chelmsford Museum, fire pokers they call them, so there must have been quite a picnic.
The railway was driven through the centre apparently, but walking the curve of the river gives a distinct sense of hilliness, by Essex standards. More puzzling is the church, which seems to be on a mound, so one wonders whether there is some sort of combination?
An Iron Age enclosure or a small univallate hillfort located near Chipping Hill Station.
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