Standing Stones Camp, Horton Moor

Lying to the N of Doddington Moor Standing Stones, an enclosure, probably a hillfort listed by Hogg (1979, 125) as Horton Moor. Now ploughed out. It lies on the summit of a slight rise at 160m OD. Circular in plan enclosing 0.6ha, it comprised a single earth and stone rampart and an outer ditch. An OS field investigation in 1955 recorded the rampart as 4m wide and 0.7m high internally and 2m above the bottom of the ditch. The width of the ditch averaged 6m with a maximum depth of 0.7m. Faint traces of a counterscarp were also recorded. Several gaps in the ramparts were observed but no entrance could be determined. No internal features were recorded but bracken prevented close inspection. A mound 12m by 9m and 0.4m high within the enclosure was said to be a burial mound but this was never verified. A cup marked stone was recorded in the interior. The site is shown on 1856-65 OS mapping but no investigation is known. It can be seen as a cropmark on 2006 Google earth imagery, though the ditch is no more than 3m wide, enclosing an area measuring 110m from E to W by 100m transversely. Undated, scheduled.

Source: Lock, Gary and Ralston, Ian. 2024. Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland. Available at: https://hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk (CC BY-SA 4.0)