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Battledown Camp 1

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Disputed shmutef

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thesweetcheat Sep 1, 2024 08:00:18

Replying to juamei

juamei wrote:

Ey up eds, this is marked disputed but is an official Schedule Ancient Monument. Cheers me dears.
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1002083

Bit of discussion here: https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/107620/fieldnotes/battledown_camp.html#comments

I reckon it probably was, but vested interests from developers made it go away :(

juamei Sep 1, 2024 14:03:40

Replying to thesweetcheat

Ah missed that cheers. I was map bothering so haven't visited. I have all of the pre Roman scheduled monuments on a map and that one is still in their released dataset as a hill fort.
From the name I'd have thought temporary Saxon maybe.