<< Our Photo Pages >> Horton Camp - Hillfort in England in Gloucestershire
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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Horton CampCountry: England County: Gloucestershire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Chipping Sodbury Nearest Village: Horton
Map Ref: ST76438436 Landranger Map Number: 172
Latitude: 51.557625N Longitude: 2.341377W
Condition:
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 |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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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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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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TheCaptain visited on 31st Jul 2020 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Friday afternoon 10k walk, north from Old Sodbury along the Cotswold Edge through two ancient forts, past three old churches and lots of big houses to Horton Court. Back over fields through Little Sodbury. Stopped for a pint at the Dog afterwards.
4clydesdale7 visited on 24th Aug 2011 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Wonderful views from SW round to NW with Drakestone Point and Brackenbury Ditches easily made out but why are Horton and Sodbury Camps so close to each other (1.5km) - Sodbury has larger earthworks Horton has the Cotswold Scarp
TheWhiteRider visited on 21st Jun 2010 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 5 Access: 4
TheCaptain have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.67 Ambience: 4.67 Access: 4
The top of the hill is fairly flat, and the southwest part has a bank surrounding it which joins the south eastern part of the promontary to about midway along the steep western edge which has recently been adopted by the National Trust. There are no traces of a ditch to go with the bank.
I may well be wrong, but I wonder if this remaining bank is an internal division of a previously much bigger encampment which covered the entire promontary ? Or is it a more recent alteration ? The Romans were very active in this area and altered many an old hillfort in these parts.
There are fantastic views to the west from here, as there is from most of the Cotswold edge in Gloucestershire.
Note: Walk from Horton Court up to Hill fort,25th October 2011. See comment
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