Interesting detour through Wighton village to Warham Camp: Iron Age fort, claimed to be the biggest and most important of its kind in East Anglia. Large grass-covered mound about 5m tall, with double moat, giving great views over countryside to coast, with information board about the fort's history. Take L turn after crossing river; uphill on road, then L again on to grassy track, at brow of hill, approx 200m through two gates and stile to camp.

Andrew Weekes

September 3, 2023

The best preserved Iron Age fort in East Anglia

Andrew Weekes

September 3, 2023

Warham Camp is a large and very well-preserved Iron Age fort sitting within agricultural land, and is a scheduled monument. It is arguably the best earthwork of this period in the region. It has been repeatedly surveyed by aerial photography, and is a circular structure with an overall diameter of 212m. The course of a channel of the River Stiffkey cuts across the south western edge of the earthworks, but this is an 18th century alteration and the original river ran in a curve to the west. There are outer and inner ditches and banks, and excavation in 1914 and 1959 produced evidence for a timber palisade and platform at the rear and timber revetment on the inner face. Iron Age and Roman pottery sherds have been recovered, including a greyware sherd, as stray finds between 2009 and 2014 (heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?MNF1828-Warham-Camp-Iron-Age-Fort&Index=1656&RecordCount=56542)

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Location: Warham, North Norfolk, Norfolk, East Of England, England, United Kingdom

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