<< Our Photo Pages >> Drakestone Camp - Misc. Earthwork in England in Gloucestershire
Submitted by 4clydesdale7 on Thursday, 07 July 2011 Page Views: 5467
Multi-periodSite Name: Drakestone Camp Alternative Name: Drakestone PointCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 0.155 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Gloucestershire Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Town: Dursley Nearest Village: Stinchcombe
Map Ref: ST73679801
Latitude: 51.680231N Longitude: 2.382217W
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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TheCaptain visited on 23rd Aug 2020 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 5 Access: 3 Walk round the Korea Friendship Trail from Dursley on a bright and breezy Sunday afternoon with a pint in the Old Spot afterwards. The views up here are tremendous, and with various other nearby viewpoints you get a full 360 degrees. Even on this not very clear day, as well as almost the entire length of the Cotswold Edge, I could make out the Mendip Hills, Bristol Channel, Black Mountains, Malvern Hills.
drolaf visited on 16th Jun 2016 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3
4clydesdale7 visited on 6th Jul 2011 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Spectacular views and curious earthworks combine to make the site very interesting
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.33 Ambience: 4.33 Access: 3
The enclosed area really is too small to be a camp or fort (could it be a refuge?)- thus it is reasonable to surmise that it is some form of 'alert' post especially because of its prominence over 360deg. - Witts suggested it may have been a signalling post but that might just be one step too far.
What has made them all ponder - well not so much the lack of size (less than 0.04hect) but the obvious presence of some other even smaller earthworks which have also divided opinion - pit dwellings or stone quarries whatever there 32 of them - the 'point/camp' is at the S end of a promontory and it is protected by 5 banks and ditches - heavy defences for such a small area
Historians suggest that 10 forts/camps dating from the Neolithic/Iron Age Eras can be seen (or alerted) from this site but very few of them can actually see each other. In a short time (in between rain squalls) I was able to spot and photograph three of the more famous
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