
Eastern flank, looking north... or thereabouts.
Eastern flank, looking north... or thereabouts.
Poor Asheldham had no defence against modern man.
Southern flank, looking east.
The southern flank, looking approx north-west (ish).
The eastern rampart lies behind bars.... overlooking a flooded gravel extraction pit.
From the (very) approx south-west.
The somewhat.. er .... irregular interior of the enclosure from the north-east (ish).
The western flank, looking north.
The trashed southern bank, looking east...
The enclosure from the south.........
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.”