Monument record 0221000000 - 300M N OF DORTON HILL FARM

DORTON CAMP - SAID TO BE SITE OF ROMAN OR BRITISH ENCAMPMENT (B1).
NO PATTERN CAN BE DISTINGUISHED TO INDICATE FORTIFICATIONS OF ANY PERIOD. SITE NOT IMPRESSIVE ON GROUND BUT NB NAME 'CAMP HILL' (B3).
2 SIDES OF PROB ENCLOSURE SHOW WITH HEAVY R&F IN 1948 APS' BUT LATER APS SHOW PLOUGHED OUT (B4).


At Camp Farm on the summit of Dorton hill (SP 683120) there was said to have been a Roman or British encampment. There is no historical or traditional evidence for it and its form can no longer be traced (B2).

Two sides of a probable enclosure show up among heavy rig-and-furrow on the hill summit at SP 679128 on 1948 air photographs, but later photo (1961) suggests these are entirely ploughed out. (B5 and B6)

No evidence of an earthwork exists in the area of Camp Farm, SP 683120, though it forms the highest part of a ridge in a good situation for a defensive work.

The 'enclosure' which appears on air photographs to the N. of Dortonhill Farm at SP 679128 has now been almost effaced by ploughing. The situation at about 450 ft OD towards the end of a ridge is suitable for a defensive work, but the features seem to have been entirely of an agricultural origin. Three sides of the 'enclosure', the N, W, and E, appear to have been low, 12.0m wide ploughing headlands though the ground drops to the N so that a negative lynchet has been formed outside the headland. The S. side is open but drops steeply with considerable geological slumping. The field thus formed, about 100m by 120m, contained ridge and furrow and was encompassed on the W. and E. by ridge and furrow set in a NE-SW direction (B7).

This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence.