
What is recorded here
Enclosure in Hampton Demesne is a hidden circular earthwork, about thirty metres across, with an opening toward the south-south-east. It no longer shows at ground level, but the land above it still carries the shape of a ringfort beneath the tillage. The field may have swallowed a whole neighbourhood of rooms, hearths and lives, yet it continues to mark its own edge through the crops.
Situated on on relatively flat land under tillage. An aerial photograph (CUCAP, BGL 4) shows a cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). It has an opening in the SSE and is probably the site of a ringfort. Not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 7 November 2014
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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