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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Solsbury Hill Alternative Name: Little Solsbury HillCountry: England County: Somerset Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Bath Nearest Village: Bathampton
Map Ref: ST76876797
Latitude: 51.410275N Longitude: 2.333951W
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 |
0 | no data |
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lauraaurora visited on 1st Jan 2018 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 3
4clydesdale7 visited on 27th Mar 2012 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 3 It is easy to understand why Peter Gabriel was so charmed by this camp and its views
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.5 Ambience: 4.5 Access: 3
4clydesdale7 adds: If you have not yet visited this early Iron Age Hillfort then it must be put at the top of your priorities for this year - the views are spectacular in all directions - the best perhaps to the SW over the City of Bath closely followed by that over the River Avon to the SE towards the White Horse near Westbury (Wilts) - you may need binoculars to pick out the White Horse above the 'Westbury Cement Works Chimney' -
A short perambulation brings up several interesting items - ramparts faced with dry stone walls - a strong bank over the northern scarp - a counterscarp ditch to the south - the remnants of a medieval field strip system (with several stone strip markers) - medieval quarrying at the eastern end of the northern scarp - an inturned entrance to the northwest probably sitting above an old holloway -
The Camp was abandoned before the arrival of the Romans - there have been some excellent finds - two inhumations - arrowheads - scrapers - pottery - there is also evidence of iron working -
The site somehow hardly gets more than an honourable mention from the historians but worthwhile extra reading can be found in
(a) Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society Vol 4(3) 1935; Vol 8(1) 1957 and Vol 9(3) 1962;
(b) Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Vol 5 1880-1 p30 and Vol 96 1978 p13
(c) Pastscape website: Bath & NE Somerset: Batheaston: Monument Number 203323
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