Loughton Camp

An Iron Age hill fort (c. 500 BC) in Epping Forest, Essex, covering approximately 4 hectares with earthworks consisting of a single bank reaching 2 m in height and an outer ditch originally about 3 m deep. First investigated by General Pitt-Rivers in 1881, excavations yielded flint flakes, cores, and fragments of hand-made pre-Roman pottery. The fort occupies a strategic ridgeline and may have been used by the Trinovantes tribe for penning cattle, as a lookout, or as a tribal boundary marker. A stone Iron Age grain millstone found nearby supports domestic functions. It is a Scheduled Monument.