The Gatehouse website record for Broomhall Copse

In the civil parish of Cranleigh. In the historic county of Surrey (Modern Authority of Surrey, 1974 county of Surrey).

Medieval ringwork constructed on a sandstone and clay ridge which forms part of the Surrey Weald. The ringwork, which is situated just to the north of the Surrey/West Sussex county border, survives as a low, circular flat-topped mound measuring 32m in diameter, surrounded by a defensive dry ditch up to 5.5m wide and 0.5m deep. Access to the interior was by way of a simple, 4m wide causewayed entrance through the south eastern defences. Fragments of glazed Norman pottery and red floor tiles were discovered during part excavation of the mound in 1928. The investigation also revealed large quantities of charcoal beneath a layer of disturbed ground, indicating that the mound was the site of a contemporary wooden structures which were destroyed by burning, and the earthwork defences slighted, at the time of abandonment of the ringwork.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TQ07743446

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 393510
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is 707 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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