Danish Camp

Danish Camp is an Iron Age fortified settlement in Shoeburyness, Essex, classified as a Scheduled Monument and one of only about 150 slight univallate hillforts recorded in Britain. The fort originally enclosed a sub-rectangular coastal area approximately 450 metres long. A 1998 excavation sampling 4% of the interior revealed four roundhouses, boundary ditches, post-built structures, and evidence of spinning, weaving, salt manufacture, and cereal processing, dating the main occupation to the Middle Iron Age (c. 400-200 BCE). Despite its name suggesting Viking origins, the earthwork predates the Vikings by over a millennium.