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<< Our Photo Pages >> Beausale Fort - Hillfort in England

Submitted by vicky on Wednesday, 25 August 2004  Page Views: 14248

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Beausale Fort
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.8 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Kenilworth
Map Ref: SP246702  Landranger Map Number: 139
Latitude: 52.329345N  Longitude: 1.640441W
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
 2 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
0No data.
 1 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Beausale Fort
Beausale Fort submitted by HarryTwenty : Northern end of the ramparts looking southwards. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hillfort in Warwickshire

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Beausale Fort submitted by Bladup : Lidar image of Beausale Fort Source: www.lidarfinder.com (Vote or comment on this photo)

Beausale Fort
Beausale Fort submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking eastwards with the sun going down behind me and projecting a great shadow from the willow tree into the field. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Beausale Fort
Beausale Fort submitted by HarryTwenty : Stood in the enclosure looking northwards. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Beausale Fort
Beausale Fort submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking south. The mound you can see is one end of the entrance in the eastern side, possibly made as a result of farming. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Beausale Fort
Beausale Fort submitted by HarryTwenty : Looking westwards. The buildings have encroached on the ramparts. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Beausale Fort
Beausale Fort submitted by HarryTwenty : Stood at the northern end looking eastwards, the interior of the fort can be seen on the right.

Beausale Fort
Beausale Fort submitted by HarryTwenty : Stood at the base of the ramparts at the northern end looking southwards.

Beausale Fort
Beausale Fort submitted by HarryTwenty : Stood at the bottom of the hill looking westwards. The hill fort is behind the trees at the top.

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Re: Beausale Fort by coldrum on Sunday, 04 December 2011
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From Pastscape:

"A somewhat worn earthwork with an extensive prospect situated on
Camphill in Beausale. A farmhouse stands just within its western end.

"In form the earthwork is roughly egg-shaped with its broadest end
towards the west; it has a raised interior plateau of about 5 1/2
acres, which is surrounded by a rampart now much worn; beyond this is
a wide ditch, evidently far less deep than it was once, and outside
the latter, remains of a second rampart are discernible here and
there, more especially upon the north and east; some parts of the
ditch contain water. These defences have become much less imposing
during the 3/4 of a century, owing both to the effects of natural
denudation and to the operations of the agriculturist; a plan made
in the year 1837 shows the outer vallum encircling about 2/3 of the
camp, and another,made probably a few years later, marks this outer
rampart as intact along the whole of the northern and eastern sides.".As far as can be judged from appearances the work in various
particulars resembles the (I.A.) camp at Hunsbury near
Northampton.

Beausale: "In this camp, on the south-east side, the remains of a
subterranean chamber were discovered some years ago; and in removing
the timber-framed house from a spot nearer the road, to its present
situation within the enclosure, two iron cannon balls of considerable
size were found. These, I surmise, were dropped during the march of
the troops to Meriden Camp during the troubles in 1745".

".. in 1545 John Coppe had a lesse of a messuage and a close called
Ruytons Bury, or Rounde Table, lying in Beausall ... The earthwork
at Camphill, Beausale is still known as the Round Table and may be
the site of Rykmersbury, mentioned by Rons as a depopulated village"




A small I.A. work mutilated by farming. No entrance can now be traced
but Campbell Farm and outbuildings straddle the compass and possibly
occupy the original entrance. No finds were made and there is no
surface indication of the "chamber" of authority 3.



A defended enclosure occupying a promontary with slopes on the north,
south and east sides. The interior is cultivated.

The main rampart is now reduced to a scarp slope 2.5m high with
traces of a ditch on the south west side. On the north and east
there is a berm 12.0m wide and an outer scarp 2.0m high with, on the
east an outer ditch 0.6m deep."

http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=334005
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Re: Beausale Fort by Anonymous on Monday, 23 June 2008
I lived for four years at Camp Hill House, which sits on the edge of the earthworks, for four years from 1972, What do you want to know?
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Re: Beausdale Fort by Anonymous on Monday, 03 December 2007
Yes, this appears to be part of Camp Hill Farm and forms the highest part of undulating but generally fairly flat Warwickshire countryside. I have only explored the southern aspect of the camp, but a steep ditch is still evident in parts if you take the trouble to poke through the undergrowth and shrubs.
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Re: Beausdale Fort by tatterdemalion on Tuesday, 29 June 2004
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We could only see a tiny bit from the road - if we've got the right place then it looks as though the landowner has cleverly landscaped part of the bank of the hillfort into her or his garden! :-)
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