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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Tadmarton Camp Alternative Name: Tadmarton HeathCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 3.93 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Oxfordshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Banbury Nearest Village: Tadmarton
Map Ref: SP38783568
Latitude: 52.018194N Longitude: 1.436307W
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3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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Tadmarton Camp is a bivallate fort which is roughly circular in shape, the interior had a diameter of about 165 metres. The internal bank survives at a height of upto four feet above the interior (and upto around 6 feet from the outside).The internal bank is visible almost all the way around the fort.
The fort is cut through, north-east to south-west by a modern road, to the south-east of the road the fort now forms part of a golf course; to the north-west the fort is on farmland which looks like it is sometimes ploughed.
Tadmarton Camp is assumed to date from the Iron Age, English Heritage (on PastScape) in a badly worded site description suggest it might date to the nineteenth century, but on further reading it turns out that the nineteenth century reference is not the hillfort/camp but a nearby "squarish ditched earthwork".
http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=335064
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