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Castle Hill camp is a prehistoric hillforts or Iron Age settlement located in Derbyshire. The site occupies a naturally elevated position and displays the defensive earthwork characteristics typical of Iron Age fortifications in the East Midlands region. Like many hillforts of this period, Castle Hill would have served both defensive and administrative functions for the surrounding community. The monument remains an important archaeological record of later prehistoric settlement patterns and territorial organisation in the county.
Castle Hill camp is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007046. View the official record →
Castle Hill camp is a prehistoric hillforts or Iron Age settlement located in Derbyshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007046.
Castle Hill camp is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1007046.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Wingfield Manor: a medieval great house (1.3 km), Butterley Gangroad and Fritchley Tunnel (2.8 km), Butterley Works blast furnaces, canal tunnel and underground wharf (3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Castle Hill camp's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Castle Hill camp stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.