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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: St George's HillCountry: England County: Surrey Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Walton on Thames Nearest Village: Cobham
Map Ref: TQ085618 Landranger Map Number: 176
Latitude: 51.344937N Longitude: 0.443557W
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 |
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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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St George’s Hill hillfort encloses around 5.5ha of the hilltop, with the ramparts following the contours of the hill, leaving an irregular ground plan. The 75m contour ramparts generally consist of an inner bank with an external ditch and outer, counter-scarp, bank, although the more accessible area to the west contains three banks and two ditches.
An extra D-shaped rampart to the north-east encloses an area where the stream formerly ran, and the proposed development lies within this area. Most of the banks of the hillfort have survived, although many of the ditches are partially or completely infilled.
Excavations in the early 20th century (Gardiner 1911) located Iron Age pottery confirming the dating of the site, whilst subsequent work also found Early and Late Iron Age pottery and iron slag. Recent fieldwork has uncovered the sequence of construction of the ramparts (Poulton and O’Connell 1984), and a shallow linear feature was found immediately to the south-west of the hillfort (Hawkins and Douglas 1999).
References:
Gardiner, E, 1911, ‘The British Stronghold of St George’s Hill, Weybridge’, Surrey Archaeol Collect, 23, 40-55
Hawkins, D and Douglas, A, 1999, ‘Archaeological investigations of land at Ravenscroft Road, St George’s Hill, Weybridge’, Surrey Archaeol Collect, 86, 210-14
Poulton, R and O’Connell, M G, 1984, ‘St George’s hill fort : excavations in 1981’, Surrey Archaeol Collect, 75, 275-80
Source: TVAS excavation of Caesar's Cottage, Camp End Road, St George's Hill, 2009 (PDF)
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