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<< Text Pages >> Bury Camp (Leicestershire) - Hillfort in England in Leicestershire and Rutland

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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Bury Camp (Leicestershire) Alternative Name: Ratby Burrow
Country: England County: Leicestershire and Rutland Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Leicester  Nearest Village: Ratby
Map Ref: SK498057
Latitude: 52.646759N  Longitude: 1.265384W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4

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Hillfort in Leicestershire. Alleged Roman Legionary fortress, though now thought to be a probable Iron Age hillfort: Late Bronze Age and Iron Age pottery and a Roman pottery sherds found.

A rectangular camp of single vallum & fosse, occupies an area of over nine acres. Rampart 3ft high on north side with escarpment of 38ft into a ditch with 9ft counterscarp. "At the NE & SW angles the vallum
rises to a greater height and at the former is a fragment of a slightly raised circular platform". Four of the gaps "are in each side, are no doubt entrances: so apparently are two other openings near the eastern angles, that at the northern looked down upon by the aforesaid platform, and that on the south defended by a rise in the vallum to 8 ft perpendicular measurement. At point 'C' on plan (2) is a modern opening".

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Re: Ratby Parish Walks by Anonymous on Wednesday, 13 December 2017
It is a rather odd shaped mound and i suspect that it was previously used a an upper paleolithic burial ground.
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Guided Walk to Bury Camp and Old Hays, Ratby, Sun 24 July by Andy B on Saturday, 18 June 2011
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Guided Walk to Bury Camp and Old Hays, Ratby

Sun 24 July 14.00–17.00

Guided walk from Plough Inn, Ratby to the Celtic-Romano enclosure at Bury Camp and the 13th-century moated farm site at Old Hays Farm, Ratby. Dogs not allowed on Bury Camp, where care needs to be taken on the ramparts. £2 each.

Location: Meet at the Plough Inn, Burroughs Road, Ratby.

Org: Ratby Local History Group
Name: Doug Harwood
Tel: 0116 2394168
Email: d.l.harwood@btinternet.com

Part of the Festival of British Archaeology 2011
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Ratby Parish Walks by Andy B on Sunday, 11 July 2010
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An Iron Age Fort with a single entrance, which dates from around 100 BC. Evidence from the site indicates continuity of settlement here from as early as 10,000 years ago, the early postglacial era, through to the Bronze, Roman and Saxon periods. (There is no public access to the site).

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