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Caesar's Camp is a multivallate hillfort located in Hampshire, England, positioned to command views of the surrounding landscape and protect settlements in the locality. The monument is defined by multiple concentric banks and ditches, a defensive configuration typical of Iron Age hillforts in southern England, though the precise dating of its construction remains subject to archaeological interpretation. Later activity at the site included the creation of a park pale, indicating continued use or management of the location during the medieval or early modern period. The survival of both the Iron Age earthworks and the later pale demonstrates the palimpsest of landscape use across centuries at this strategically significant location.
Large multivallate hillfort and later park pale at Caesar's Camp is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007895. View the official record →
Caesar's Camp is a multivallate hillfort located in Hampshire, England, positioned to command views of the surrounding landscape and protect settlements in the locality. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007895.
Large multivallate hillfort and later park pale at Caesar's 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 1007895.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 100m east of Forest Cottage (5.6 km), Bowl barrow 180m south east of Forest Cottage (5.7 km), Waverley Abbey: a Cistercian monastery south of Waverley Abbey House (5.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Large multivallate hillfort and later park pale at Caesar's 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.
Large multivallate hillfort and later park pale at Caesar's Camp stands on Bracklesham Group And Barton Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is sand, silt and clay.