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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Dyrham Camp Alternative Name: Hinton HillfortCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 0.969 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Gloucestershire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Chipping Sodbury Nearest Village: Hinton
Map Ref: ST741767 Landranger Map Number: 172
Latitude: 51.488650N Longitude: 2.374419W
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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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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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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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TheCaptain visited on 9th Oct 2020 Walking a loop on the Cotswold Way around Dyrham and Tormarton, see Hinton Hillfort from the southern side in the fading autumn sunlight.
4clydesdale7 visited on 30th Jun 2011 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Limited visit to part of fort to NW of road - whetted my appetite for a return for more detailed inspection
SolarMegalith visited on 23rd Jun 2010 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4
TheCaptain visited on 9th Sep 2007 Dyrham Camp, otherwise known as Hinton Hillfort, is not so much a hillfort, but more a promontary fort, on a southwest facing spur of the Cotswold Hills north of Bath. Basically triangular in shape, it is cut into two by the little road up the hillside from the village of Hinton below. The northern part is mostly in woodland, and seems to be used as a rubbish dump these days. The hill edge has been shaped, and in places the bank and ditch is in fine condition, perhaps kept in shape in more recent times for drainage. The southern half of the fort is open pasture with a public footpath running through, and the steep southern slopes are sort of terraced, with several almost cliff like ramparts, below which are quite spectacular remains of ancient field systems. The eastern edge of the fort, where the land is flat on top of the Cotswold plateau, has a large ditch and bank in place across the headland. The ditch is about 10 metres wide and 2 metres deep, with a bank up to 4 metres high on the inside, which even these days is a fairly good barrier to entry.
jlfern2 visited - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4
hevveh have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 3.33 Access: 4
The northern part is mostly in woodland, and seems to be used as a rubbish dump these days. The hill edge has been shaped, and in places the bank and ditch is in fine condition, perhaps kept in shape in more recent times for drainage.
The southern half of the fort is open pasture with a public footpath running through, and the steep southern slopes are sort of terraced, with several almost cliff like ramparts, below which are quite spectacular remains of ancient field systems.
The eastern edge of the fort, where the land is flat on top of the Cotswold plateau, has a large ditch and bank in place across the headland. The ditch is about 10 metres wide and 2 metres deep, with a bank up to 4 metres high on the inside, which even these days is a fairly good barrier to entry.
In many ways, it is best seen from high land to the south in Dyrham Park (National Trust).
Dating from the Iron Age, it was the likely site of the Battle of Dyrham in 577 AD when the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle tells us that the invading Saxons under "Cuthwine and Ceawlin fought against the Britons and slew three kings, Coinmail, Condidan and Farimail at the place which is called Dyrham; and they captured three cities, Gloucester, Cirencester and Bath"
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