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<< Our Photo Pages >> The Knolls - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Gloucestershire

Submitted by h_fenton on Tuesday, 29 November 2011  Page Views: 6872

Multi-periodSite Name: The Knolls Alternative Name: Oxenton Hill
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.176 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Gloucestershire Type: Ancient Village or Settlement

Map Ref: SO97253135
Latitude: 51.980604N  Longitude: 2.041449W
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
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data 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
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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The Knolls
The Knolls submitted by h_fenton : The Knolls, viewed from the south (Nottingham Hill). 13 November 2011 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Iron Age hilltop settlement, protected on all sides by a scarp, on the south-eastern and south-western sides 20feet below the scarp there is a linear back upto 10feet high. Various people at various times have thought different things about this site, some people might say the banks are defences, others think they are natural, some people think this is a hillfort - other say it is an unenclosed settlement.

What is undisputed is that there was Iron Age activity here, the evidence for which is lots of pottery found in animal burrows. The top of The Knolls has been extensively quarried, this quarrying is thought to have destroyed most if not all of the iron age features.

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The Knolls
The Knolls submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking SE. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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The Knolls submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking SE along the embankment at Nottingham Hill. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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The Knolls submitted by HarryTwenty : SW embankment looking NW with the Malverns in the background. (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Knolls
The Knolls submitted by HarryTwenty : Entrance between the embankments on the southern side. Nottingham Hill is visible on the left and Bishop's Cleeve on the right. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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The Knolls submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking eastwards back along the earthwork.

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The Knolls submitted by HarryTwenty : Embankment on the southern side. If this was a defensive structure the ditch has been filled in and it's now used as farm track (possibly also an ex-quarry road), similar to the defensive ditches at Conderton.

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The Knolls submitted by HarryTwenty : End of the embankment on the southern side looking west.

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The Knolls submitted by HarryTwenty : South eastern edge looking at Nottingham Hill.

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The Knolls submitted by HarryTwenty : Top of the Knolls looking north at Bredon Hill. The views from the Knolls are commanding looking at the surrounding Cotswold outliers with their various hillforts (Conderton, Nottingham Hill, The Warren and the earthworks on neighbouring Dixton Hill).

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The Knolls submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking southwards.

The Knolls
The Knolls submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking south at Nottingham hill. The effects of quarrying can be seen in the foreground, any features of the original settlement/hillfort have been wiped out.

The Knolls
The Knolls submitted by HarryTwenty : Embankment at the southern end looking west with the Malverns in the background.

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The Knolls submitted by HarryTwenty : Western end, great tree!

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The Knolls submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking eastwards at the northern end.

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The Knolls submitted by HarryTwenty : Western end approach.

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The Knolls submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking up at the Knolls from the track on the western side.

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Book Review: Adventure on The Knolls by Michael Dundrow by Andy B on Monday, 31 July 2017
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Kim Biddulph writes: This book is set in the late Iron Age. John is an ordinary boy who helps out on his parents farm in 20th century England. One misty morning after getting the cows onto their pasture, he takes a stroll up the hill behind his house called The Knolls to the remains of the Iron Age hillfort. He knows there’s a chalk pit up there and tries not to fall into it, but fall he does and in a flash of light he finds himself transported back 2000 years in time.

The first people he meets are a brother and sister very similar to him in age. They introduce themselves as Morva and Rik and urge him to get inside the hillfort before the enemy tribe, the Iceni, attack. Although their accent is funny he can understand them, and they him, which is lucky.

From the beginning there is plenty of action, with the battle, a kidnapping of the three children thrown in for good measure, and then a visit by Romans headed by Julius Caesar himself, there is plenty to capture children’s imagination and to build discussions and activities on.

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