More information : [SK 2346 8190] Camp Green [OE] (1)
The VCH classes Camp Green as a 'single enclosured Camp' (and gives a rather distorted illustration suggesting a Motte and Bailey), and it is scheduled by MOW under 'Other secular sites and buildings'. But it is specifically, though briefly, referred to in Medieval Archaeology as a 'Norman ring-motte', in connection with a visit by members of the Society for Medieval Archaeology. No direct confirmation of this classification can be found, but Bray's description and illustration (predating extensive mutilation) of a circular enclosure, outside diam 200ft and inside 144ft with a 20ft high rampart surrounded by a deep ditch, seem to support it. (2-5)
Modern mutilation has reduced this earthwork to a mere semi-circle, with most of the southern features now obliterated by buildings and other developments. The remains however, indicate a former enclosure of some strength, with steeply sloping rampart and wide external ditch. The size, shape, situation, moat-like ditch and strength of this relatively small enclosure all confirm its classification as a ring-motte. Published survey (25in 1922) revised. (6)
SK 234 819. A Norman ring-work, known as Camp Green and less commonly as Danes Camp, is situated on a knoll north-east of St Michael's Church, Hathersage. Excavations in 1976-7 by R A Hodges, University of Sheffield, failed to produce any conclusive dating evidence with the exception of a single 13th century Brackenfield ware sherd. Nevertheless Hodges is convinced, both by comparison and association, that this earthwork is a Norman ring-work. It is also included by King and Alcock in their list of Ringworks in England and Wales (1969) as a class A site. Part of this site was scheduled by the Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments in 1948 and the remaining portionin 1979 when it was described as a probable medieval ringwork. (7-10)
Listed by Cathcart King. (11) |