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Looking south from Hascombe Hill

Hascombe Hill or Hascombe Camp[1] is the site of an Iron Age multivallate hill fort close to the village of Hascombe in Surrey, England.

History

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Stone circle

The site was excavated in 1931 by S. E. Winbolt, who dated the occupation of the site to the 1st century BC. The hillfort encloses a thickly wooded area of approximately Шаблон:Convert. The sides of the fort, which are naturally very steep, were scarped at the top to make them almost unassailable. Encircling the crest of the hill is a defensive ditch Шаблон:Convert deep. The defences are reinforced on the northeast side (where the hillfort joins the rest of the hill) with a strong line of ramparts and ditches broken by a single entrance passage some Шаблон:Convert long.

In the early 19th century it became an important naval telegraph station, using a mechanical form of semaphore to communicate with Netley Heath in Surrey on one side and Blackdown in Sussex on the other. A chain of such stations linked London with Portsmouth.

The height of Hascombe Hill is 644 feet.

In the 1990s the Modern Order of Druids erected a stone circle below the south-eastern slopes of Hascombe Hill.[2]

References

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Sources

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  1. Exploring Surrey's Past, HER 676 - "Hascombe Camp" multivallate hillfort, Hascombe, Online [1] )retrieved 30.05.12)
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