South Weald Camp

DTM- (Digital Terrain Model, i.e. No buildings or foliage) Within Weald Langton’s Wood and the South Weald Cricket Club lies the univallate hillfort, South Weald Camp. Sandpit Lane bisects the site north-south. Two trenches excavated in 1995. Neolithic & Bronze Age flints recovered. Pottery sherds at the bottom of the ditch date the site at 100BC to 100 AD. Ditch re-cut in 1000-1200 AD. Various post holes recorded. Ramparts almost levelled for Fox breeding in the 19th century. Used for allotments in WW2. Now a cricket club. Interestingly the site was Scheduled in 1955 but the cricket club must have been laid down after the allotments had been abandoned after WW2. Iron Age tribal association (conjecture based on location): Catuvellauni or Trinovantes (Scheduled Monument)