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<< Our Photo Pages >> Rainsborough Camp - Hillfort in England in Northamptonshire

Submitted by SolarMegalith on Wednesday, 22 March 2023  Page Views: 19509

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Rainsborough Camp
Country: England County: Northamptonshire Type: Hillfort

Map Ref: SP526348  Landranger Map Number: 151
Latitude: 52.009148N  Longitude: 1.235072W
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
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 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.
4 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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zentipi visited on 15th Aug 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Worth a visit, ramparts in good condition, easy to access from the adjoining bridleway. The views are good from the ramparts. May be sheep grazing the site.

SolarMegalith visited on 24th Feb 2012 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Well-preserved bivallate hillfort. I lied down in the middle of the fort with sky only in front of my eyes...

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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.5 Ambience: 4 Access: 4

Rainsborough Camp
Rainsborough Camp submitted by zentipi : Rainsborough Hillfort, Northants,UK. Image copyright: zentipi (Neal Oldmeadow), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hillfort in Northamptonshire. From SolarMegalith: This bivallate Iron Age hillfort is located SE from Kings Sutton, it covers 2.5 ha. The inner ring of the earthworks is in very good condition with clearly distinguishable rampart and ditch. The outer bank is mostly leveled, while the outer ditch is filled. The original entrance is located at the west.

Rainsborough Camp was excavated in 1961-1965. These works revealed, that the ramparts were built in 5th century BC, but the hillfort could be preceeded by the earlier enclosure. Not far from the hillfort Vespasian's golden coin was discovered. It is possible, that Rainsborough Camp was occupied also in medieval period.

Note: Postholes discovered at Rainsborough Camp are suggested to have held a triumphal arch or totem pole. For more see Rites of Passage and the Cultural Life of the Doorway by George Children and George Nash, linked from the comments on our page
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Rainsborough Camp
Rainsborough Camp submitted by SolarMegalith : SW corner of the earthworks (photo taken on February 2012). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Rainsborough Camp
Rainsborough Camp submitted by SolarMegalith : Entrance to the hillfort located at the west, the only one which is obviously original (photo taken on February 2012). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Rainsborough Camp submitted by SolarMegalith : NE part of the rampart - view from the NE (photo taken on February 2012). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Rainsborough Camp submitted by SolarMegalith : View alongside the western rampart and interior of the hillfort (photo taken on February 2012). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Rainsborough Camp submitted by SolarMegalith : Rampart in southern part of the Iron Age hillfort (photo taken on February 2012). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Rainsborough Camp submitted by SolarMegalith : Inner rampart in eastern part of Rainsborough Camp - view from the SE (photo taken on February 2012).

Rainsborough Camp
Rainsborough Camp submitted by J_D4 : Rainsborough Camp is a hillfort constructed and first occupied by Iron Age tribes during the 6th century BC. During the 4th century BC the fort was attacked and burnt to the ground. It was not refortified and occupied again until the late 2nd century BC and then only briefly. The site was later occupied by a non-defensive settlement in Roman times during the 1st and 4th centuries AD. Since then th...

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Re: Rainsborough Camp by Andy B on Wednesday, 22 March 2023
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Postholes discovered at Rainsborough Camp, Northamptonshire are believed to have held a triumphal arch or totem pole. Entrances and ‘guard’ chambers at Rainsborough and Titterstone Clee Camps. Note the absence of elaborate earthworks (after Dyer 1981)
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More in “Rites of Passage and the cultural life of the doorway: an expression in metaphor and social statementing” by George Children and George Nash in 3rd Stone 29 - free download from here:
https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146415080
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Re: Rainsborough Camp by Anonymous on Monday, 13 March 2023
My name is Matthew Rainsberry and I have traced my ancestors back to Ireland, who most probably got there while settling there after the English Civil war. I had no idea this place could be traced back to the 2nd century and I'm now very interested on getting further information. My grandfather, who came from Ireland, lived near there and would often take my dogs for walks near the grounds of the camp with which he, an Irishman, shared a family name with (crazy I know). However, me and my family that the name Rainsborough ended up there due to a military stronghold occupied by our ancestor, Thomas Rainsberry, a colonel in the Parliamentarian Army during the Civil war. I also, however, found that HIS name comes from a name derived from a place called and derived from 'Raven's Borough', hence the name. Can anyone please de-bunk this and help me unravel this mystery.
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Re: Rainsborough Camp by h_fenton on Saturday, 25 February 2012
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there was Roman activity at Rainsborough too, in some areas there is Ceramic Building Material (CBM) and pottery sherds to be found in the spoil from animal burrows.
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Re: Rainsborough Camp by coldrum on Monday, 05 October 2009
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Excavations of Rainsborough camp during 1961-5 revealed the following. A bivallate IA fort, the inner bank standing about 10ft above the interior, with a drop of about 15ft into the inner ditch; the second bank is very much lowered by ploughing, but still reaches a height of about 4ft on the S side, where a hedge line has protected it; the outer ditch is not visible on the surface except on the W, when it carries a higher growth of weeds.

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Re: Rainsborough Camp by Anonymous on Thursday, 18 September 2008
This place is well worth a visit if you are in the area. There is a Neolithic burial mound just outside the ramparts, and some of the Roman wall is still standing on the Northern side. The view is spectacular, and just down the hill towards Charlton is a spring, at the end of a sunken trackway.An atmospheric place to eat your elevenses.
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Re: Rainsborough Camp by tatterdemalion on Sunday, 15 February 2004
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This site has a very pleasant walk to get to it and is well worth a visit. There's a surprising view too. A notice on an entrance gate says that there is believed also to be a barrow by the west side. The noise from the planes overhead was constant, which was a shame because it interfered with the 'feel' of the site.
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Re: Rainsborough Camp by Anonymous on Tuesday, 17 September 2002
we know this site well living in the nearby village of Aynho. We often walk to the camp which is still an impressive structure around 200meters in diameter and a well defined rampart and ditch surrounding.

we have also found roman and iron age pottery in the neraby, bordering fields.
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