More information : (SO 366734) Hill Fort (NR). (1)
Coxall Knoll Camp, a multi-vallate hill fort divided into three
enclosures (see plan). There are four entrances to the camp, three
of which, to the W, S and N are inturned and presumed to be
original; the fourth, also on the N, cut straight through the
ramparts, may be later.
In the NE enclosure is a recumbant standing stone. (2)
The hill-fort is as described. The recumbent stone at SO 36797350 is
known locally as "The Frog Stone" because of its resemblence
to a frog. This stone does not appear to have been upright at any
time as it lies on flat ground and there is no trace of a hollow
from which it may have come.
Published survey (25") revised. (3)
SO 366 734: Coxall Knoll Camp. Scheduled. (4)(5)
SO 366 734. Coxall Knoll. Listed in gazetteer as a multivallate hillfort with 2 phases of construction. (?)Phase I covered 3.2ha; (?)Phase II 5.8ha. (6)
Coxwall or Coxall Knoll. Description with plan. (7)
SO 366 739. Coxall Knoll camp. Scheduled. (8)
The hillfort is multi-vallate, but only fragments of some of the defences are visible on aerial photographs and have been mapped from aerial photographs by RCHME's Marches Uplands Mapping Project. None of the entrances mentioned by authority 2 could be seen clearly on the air photographs, although a complicated arrangement of outworks to the west may be part of one of them. The third enclosure of those noted by authority 2 (at SO 3673 7352) is totally obscured by trees. (9-10)
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