Monument record 0155800000 - SEVEN WAYS PLAIN

Dimensions - Length 180m; Width 125m.
Plan Form - Ovoid.
Enclosure consists of single dry ditch c.1m deep & 11m wide. NE side destroyed by quarrying & S levelled for car park. Inner bank barely visible except on SW & E sides. Broad outer bank on E side due to quarrying & further hollow-way giving access to quarry (B1-3).
SW entrance? WD huts once inside (01:000) (B3).
Scheduled SAM 27136 (B4).
Trial trench excavated across rampart bank ditch and counterscarp bank on SE side of hillfort in October 2021. Partial profile only, due to tree roots and WWII concrete foundation beam.




[SU 94718466] Camp [L.B.] (B7).

Enclosure of simple plan,known locally as Seven Ways Plain,stands on level ground about 220ft. above O.D. and covers about 3 acres. The work is of an irregular oval shape and consists of a single dry ditch about 3' deep and 38' wide. Much of the east part has been obliterated by a clay pit and in the present state of the work, nothing can be said as to the position of the entrances. The enclosure might be regarded as a small and poor example of a plateau camp with only the ditch remaining (B1).

A probable I.A. plateau hillfort,in poor condition,having been partly destroyed by a quarry on the north-east and levelled in the south for a car park. It is generally as described by the R.C.H.M.,the inner bank being barely visible except on the south-west and eastern side. There is a broad outer bank on the east side which is probably due to the quarrying to the north and east,the ditch having been used as a way into the workings. There is another hollow-way into the workings some 15.0m. To the east. Published 1/2500 revised (B8).

SU 947 846. Burnham Beeches, Seven Ways Plain. Listed in gazetteer of British hillforts. Area 1.2ha. (B9)

Surveyed at 1:500 scale by D & D Miller in 1975 (B10).