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<< Our Photo Pages >> Batsford Camp - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Gloucestershire

Submitted by vicky on Thursday, 25 March 2004  Page Views: 7100

Multi-periodSite Name: Batsford Camp
Country: England County: Gloucestershire Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Chipping Norton  Nearest Village: Moreton-in-Marsh
Map Ref: SP2038932974  Landranger Map Number: 151
Latitude: 51.994843N  Longitude: 1.704456W
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.
2 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.
4 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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Batsford Camp
Batsford Camp submitted by whisperingknight : Banks on the north side of the lane, looking south. (Vote or comment on this photo)
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Batsford Camp
Batsford Camp submitted by whisperingknight : Banks in the field on the north side of the lane, looking south-west. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Batsford Camp
Batsford Camp submitted by whisperingknight : The circular earthwork has been truncated by the lane to Batsford. This photo shows the banks in the pasture field on the north side of the lane, looking north-west. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Moreton-in-Marsh Stone Age axe find leads to seaside theory by Andy B on Tuesday, 20 December 2011
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[Posting this on the closest site we have to this area of Moreton-in-Marsh]

A Stone Age hand axe which was found on a building site could help prove part of Gloucestershire was once "almost on the seaside", experts have said.

Archaeologists uncovered the finely-worked stone tool, which may be about 100,000 years old, on a housing development in Moreton-in-Marsh.

They said they believed it may have been used by cavemen on the shores of a lake that spanned across the Midlands.

The axe is thought to have been used primarily for butchering large animals.

The tool was found by Cotswold Archaeology earlier this month on the building site at The Fire Service College.

A similar axe was found nearby a few years ago, which experts said made the latest find "hugely significant".
'Great lake'

Neil Holbrook, chief executive at Cotswold Archaeology, said: "Back in the deep distant past, before the Ice Age, there was a huge lake in central Britain covering most of what is now Warwickshire and heading up to Leicestershire, which geologists now call Lake Harrison.

"Moreton-in-Marsh would have been on the southern shore of this great lake.

"Perhaps it's just too much coincidence that we've found these two prehistoric axes in that location.

"I wonder whether these Neanderthals were coming to camp and forage on the shores of the lake?

"Perhaps it points to a time when Moreton-in-Marsh was almost on the seaside."

It is hoped the axe will be put on display in the Corinium Museum in Cirencester.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-15851081
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