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Text Pages: Medmenham Camp - Hillfort in England in Buckinghamshire
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Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 04 August 2009 Page Views: 2490
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 Site Name: Medmenham Camp Country: England County: Buckinghamshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Marlow Nearest Village: Hurley
Map Ref: SU80698467
Latitude: 51.555155N Longitude: 0.837538W
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Access:| 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. |
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  Hillfort in Buckinghamshire. The earthwork and buried remains of the prehistoric hillfort known as
Medmenham Camp lies to the west of Bockmer Lane, occupying a commanding position on the end of a spur overlooking the village of Medmenham to the south and the broad valley of the River Thames. The circuit of defences is roughly pear-shaped in plan, measuring approximately 350m north to south, and 300m across its wider, northern end.
The fort tapers towards the south following the topography of the spur.
The defences here appear to have relied primarily on the severity of the natural slopes, and are marked by an
artificial outward-facing scarp, varying between 6m and 12m wide and up to 3m in height, with a slight terrace at the base and traces of a bank along the summit. The bank may originally have been strengthened by a timber palisade along the top.
The hillfort is approached from the north and east over relatively level ground and, reflecting this, the bank on these sides is accompanied by an external ditch, which also extends part way along the western arm. The bank and ditch remain clearly visible within the woodland which covers the northern and western sections of the perimeter; where the bank varies between 5m and 10m in width, and between 0.6m and 1.7m in height, and the ditch measures on average 5m wide and 1m deep.
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Note: Archaeologists unveil findings of three year project in Marlow, see comment
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Volunteers needed to discover Marlow’s hidden past (Score: 1)
by Andy B on Tuesday, 11 July 2006
(User Info | Send a Message) | A call for volunteers to help a major archaeology project has been sounded in Marlow. Plans to survey and record some of the area's historic and pre-historic earthworks and monuments has led to a recruitment drive by organisers. The project, known as Recording of Marlow and District's Ancient Monuments (ROMADAM), is being put together by a number of participating organisations, including Archaeology In Marlow (AIM).
A grant of £22,605 from the Local Heritage Initiative will help achieve the project's aims, but more hands are needed to uncover mysteries like the Iron Age Hillforts at Danesfield and Medmenham.
John Laker, chairman of AIM, said: "We have good funding to complete all these things and we intend to involve as many individuals, organisations and schools as we can, to ensure the project is a major success for Marlow and Marlow residents."
Volunteers are needed in a number of areas, including model making and giving tours to show schools around the monuments.
For more information call the AIM group on 01628 475488
Source: Bucks Free Press 25/02/2005
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Archaeologists unveil findings of three year project in Marlow (Score: 1)
by Andy B on Tuesday, 04 August 2009
(User Info | Send a Message) | THE second of a series of permanent reminders of Marlow's long forgotten past was unveiled this week.
The findings of a major three year long archaeological project examining iron age hill forts were put on display at Danesfield Hotel, Henley Road, Marlow on Tuesday.
An information board detailing the finds of the Danesfield site was unveiled by Sandy Kidd, senior archaeologist and Buckinghamshire County Councillor Bob Woollard.
It followed the unveiling of the first panel - at the Medmenham Iron Age hill fort – which was put on display last week by Wycombe MP Paul Goodman.
A group of time detectives researched and surveyed a number of sites up to 3,000 years old around Marlow.
The investigations were carried out by Archaeology in Marlow.
The Recording Of Marlow And District’s Ancient Monuments scheme (ROMADAM) was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
A fence between Danesfield House and SAS UK divides the remains of the historic horse-shoe shaped fort in two.
AIM spokesman John Laker said: "A quarter of the fort was removed when Danesfield House was originally built and the present hotel complex lies across the western section of the Hill Fort.
"The southern side of the Hill Fort’s defences was completed by a chalk cliff which towers above the River Thames below.
"The southern section, known as ‘The Cascades’, has a spring which flows into a valley and runs down to the Thames."
There are hill forts scattered all over Britain which were first built in the late Bronze Age around 1,000 BC through until the Roman invasion in 43 AD.
They are thought to have been used to protect settlements and cattle, store grain and may even have been the high status homes for tribal chiefs and their families.
The Catuvellani tribe who lived there may have had a population of about 1,000.
The Danesfield site was taken over by the RAF from 1941 until 1977.
During World War II, it was home to the Allied Central Interpretation Unit, which printed and collated aerial photographs taken from Spitfires and Mosquito planes whilst flying over enemy territory and seaways.
Prior to the vacation of the site in 1994, the site housed the headquarters of the Ministry of Defence Police Training School.
For more information or to join the digs currently going on in Happy Valley contact John Laker by email on johnlaker@thamesinternet.com or call 01628 481792.
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http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/4518028.Archaeologists_unveil_findings_of_three_year_project/
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