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Image of Asheldham Camp (Plateau Fort) by GLADMAN

Eastern flank, looking north... or thereabouts.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
Image of Asheldham Camp (Plateau Fort) by GLADMAN

Poor Asheldham had no defence against modern man.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
Image of Asheldham Camp (Plateau Fort) by GLADMAN

The southern flank, looking approx north-west (ish).

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
Image of Asheldham Camp (Plateau Fort) by GLADMAN

The eastern rampart lies behind bars.... overlooking a flooded gravel extraction pit.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
Image of Asheldham Camp (Plateau Fort) by GLADMAN

The somewhat.. er .... irregular interior of the enclosure from the north-east (ish).

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
Image of Asheldham Camp (Plateau Fort) by GLADMAN

The trashed southern bank, looking east...

Image credit: Robert Gladstone

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Asheldham Camp
Plateau Fort

OK, not the most upstanding fort you’ll ever see, having been much impacted over the years by gravel workings... however, well worth stopping off for a visit, seeing as this is a fine corner of Essex.

In summary, Historic England reckons:

“A slight univallate hillfort which lies roughly in the centre of the Dengie peninsular, on a plateau rather than a hilltop. The defences include a bank and external ditch, which as visible on the east & south of the enclosure as earthworks. Bronze Age and Iron Age. There is conjectural evidence (through finds) for reoccupation in the Roman period and in the early Anglo-Saxon period.”

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