South Weald Camp

South Weald Camp was a hillfort based in South Weald, Brentwood, Essex [1]. Roughly circular in plan, the fort covered 2.8 hectares, with a suggested construction date in the late Iron Age, from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD [1]. The location is associated in this period with the Catuvellauni and the Trinovantes [1]. The camp's defences consisted of a rampart and steep banked slope, with traces of an external ditch [1]. Although for a long time after the Iron Age, the Camp didn't have much use, in the medieval period the fort was used as part of a deer-park and then later used as a WWII training ground [1]. The camp occupies a slight hillslope at approximately 98 metres to 102 metres above sea level [1]. South Weald Camp was listed as a Scheduled Monument in January 1955, on the basis of the general rarity in the UK of slight univallate hillforts [1].