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Images
Inner rampart, looking south-east.
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South-eastern section of the inner cross defences.... somewhat overgrown, you might say.
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Seems Nature doesn’t want to let go of this ‘un.
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Southern promontory defences... not bad.
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I do hope this isn’t what it looks like... Auf wiedersehen, pet? Surely not?
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Southern flank of promontory defences.
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The powerful bank to approx south of the enclosure.
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The outer rampart of the north-eastern front.
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The hillfort entrance approx midway in the north-eastern defences.
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The inner rampart rises above the supplementary outer rampart, present here to protect the approach along the promontory.
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Looking approx north along inner rampart.
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The approach from the north... the footpath follows the line of the inner ditch, inner rampart to right of image.
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Articles
This pleasingly wooded promontory fort is, according to Surrey Archaeological Society,“a roughly trapezoidal enclosure with the long axis lying north-east/south-west. The position of the earthworks is governed by the shape of the end of the ridge except where their north-eastern leg cuts perpendicularly across the length of the ridge. This north-eastern leg of the ramparts contains the entrance which is set off-centre towards the north-west, and has short out-turned banks on either side”.
Details of a 2008/2009 survey undertaken by the Society can be seen online at:
surreyarchaeology.org.uk/content/hascombe-hillfort-survey
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St Catherine’s Hill
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Thursley Common
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St Martha’s Hill
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Holmbury Camp
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Hillbury
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Turners Hill
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Abinger Manor
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Crooksbury Common
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Deerleap Wood Barrow
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Frensham Common
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Anstiebury Hillfort
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Bourne Wood Barrow
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Barossa Barracks Barrow
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Skirmishing Hill Earthwork
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