<< Our Photo Pages >> Towbury Camp - Hillfort in England in Gloucestershire
Submitted by 4clydesdale7 on Sunday, 04 March 2012 Page Views: 6246
Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Towbury CampCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 3.157 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Gloucestershire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Tewkesbury Nearest Village: Twyning
Map Ref: SO88003695
Latitude: 52.030827N Longitude: 2.176325W
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5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
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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4clydesdale7 visited on 3rd Mar 2012 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Just to South of M50 with Golf Course to South East - nice afternoon stroll - Sandstone quarrying had little effect -
SteveJJones have visited here
A little known Iron Age Hillfort at the NW edge of Gloucestershire of 20+acres, roughly rectangular in shape probably originally built to protect a westerly branch (to Ledbury in Herefordshire) of an ancient road between Gloucester and Worcester where the branch crossed the River Severn just north of its confluence with the River Avon.
To the west north and east the camp is protected by a natural scarp and on its southern side by a small bank with a deep ditch - the SW of the camp has been eaten into by post-medieval quarrying for sandstone - the famed historian Leland claimed the camp was one of the palaces of King Offa - during Saxon times the Inner Camp was cultivated as evidenced today by strong ridges and furrows - it is also reputed to be one of the more northerly of a line of camps (Clifton to Bredon) occupied by the Romans to keep the Silures at bay.
Mentioned in:-
(a) Samuel Rudders History of Gloucestershire 1749 p780
(b) GF Playne in a paper to the Cotteswolde Naturalists Field Club in 1877 Vol VI p226
(c) G Witts Archaeological Handbook of the County of Gloucester 1883 - Camp 101
(d) Transactions of Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 1903 Vol 26 p88 & 1992 Vol 110 p227
(e) EJ Burrow Ancient Entrenchments and Camps of Gloucestershire 1924 p132
(f) pastscape website; Gloucestershire: Tewkesbury: Twyning: 115727
A very tidy site bordered on the north by the M50 and on the south by a golf course well worth an afternoon stroll.
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