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<< Our Photo Pages >> Kemerton Camp - Hillfort in England in Worcestershire

Submitted by vicky on Thursday, 26 February 2004  Page Views: 39627

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Kemerton Camp Alternative Name: Bredon Hill Fort
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.4 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Worcestershire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Evesham  Nearest Village: Eckington
Map Ref: SO957401  Landranger Map Number: 150
Latitude: 52.059262N  Longitude: 2.06413W
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
3 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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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
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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
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poho visited on 15th Jan 2023 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3 It's a steep walk up Bredon Hill to get to this site, but the breathtaking views are worth the effort. It was a touch on the breezy side at the top!

Kemerton Camp
Kemerton Camp submitted by Aerial-Cam : Kemerton Camp the main hillfort on top of Bredon Hill, Worcestershire. There is another Iron Age enclosure on the sourthern slope called Conderton Camp and another possible at Elmley Castle. Kemerton Camp is a promontory fort with a steep escarpment dropping away on the north side of the Hill, it has two sets of ramparts and ditches to the south. The inner ramparts possibly date to 300BC. T... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Kemerton Camp is a hillfort on the top of Bredon Hill in Worcestershire. With a steep escarpment dropping away on the north side of the Hill, it has two sets of ramparts and ditches to the south. The inner ramparts possibly date to 300BC.

Excavations at Kemerton Camp in the 1930s uncovered, near the entrance to the inner ramparts of the fort, the burial place of some 50 slaughtered men, along with a great number of weapons. Are they evidence of a last stand against the Roman invasion, or of some internecine strife between warring tribes ?

Adjacent to Kemerton Camp is a small stone tower called Parsons Folly (or the Banbury Stone Tower) which was built in the mid-18th century for John Parsons, MP (1732–1805), squire of Kemerton Court and intended as a summer house.
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Kemerton Camp
Kemerton Camp submitted by h_fenton : Bredon Hill viewed from the South West. Kite Aerial Photograph 22 July 2012 @ 8.37pm (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Kemerton Camp
Kemerton Camp submitted by Aerial-Cam : Elephant (or Banbury) stone within a large dip on the edge of the escarpment of Bredon Hill and within Kemerton Camp Hillfort. The collection of boulders are of a natural conglomerate formed in the cracks of the Oolitic limestone back in geological time, which was then exposed when the softer rock around it weathered and slipped away. Looking at it from the south the main boulder certainly does lo... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kemerton Camp
Kemerton Camp submitted by camperman : Kemerton Camp viewed from the south showing the two ramparts and ditches cutting off the promontory. The original main entrance is in the south east corner. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Kemerton Camp submitted by camperman : Kemerton Camp viewed from the north west showing the precipitous slopes defending two sides of the triangular promontory fort. Parsons Folly or the Banbury Stone Tower is in the foreground. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Kemerton Camp submitted by poho : The Banbury Stone really does look like an elephant!

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Kemerton Camp submitted by HarryTwenty : Elephant (Banbury) stone.

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Kemerton Camp submitted by HarryTwenty : Elephant stone on Bredon Hill.

Kemerton Camp
Kemerton Camp submitted by HarryTwenty : Elephant stone enjoying the last rays of the setting sun.

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Kemerton Camp submitted by Humbucker : Looking for all the world like a fossilised reclining mammoth - The Elephant Stone on the northern side of Kemerton camp. (2 comments)

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Kemerton Camp submitted by Humbucker : The inner & outer ramparts on the western side of Kemerton Camp showing the wide area between the two.

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Kemerton Camp submitted by Humbucker : Entrance to Kemerton Camp from the south through the inner ramparts.

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Kemerton Camp submitted by Humbucker : The inner ramparts of Kemerton Camp with Parsons Folly prominent on the ridge.

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Re: Bredon Hill by speedbird2064 on Sunday, 18 January 2015
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I just wonder about the significance of the transmission tower on top of the hill, is it for transmission or is it for listening to our phone calls and texs as not far away in Cheltenham is GCHQ. I view a website via richplanet.net and its about secret military instillations and the tower features as one of them. According to the late Phil Schnieder who was a geologist who worked at Area 51 and Dulce, these had these towers on top of the bases and Bredon has such a tower, just curious!!
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Re: Bredon Hill - discovery of 5,000-yr-old skull by AngieLake on Sunday, 01 September 2013
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The woman's skull in the news report was found on the banks of the River Avon in Worcestershire -

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"The find is a few miles from Bredon Hill, which has been a scene of human activity down the ages and still boasts the earthen ramparts of what was an Iron Age hill fort, however finds of Neolithic remains are rare."

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2407337/Discovery-5-000-year-old-skull-fabulous-condition-sparks-mystery.html
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Re: Bredon Hill by Anonymous on Monday, 02 January 2006
My younger brother - John Burton - was part of the team who investigated this site many years ago. When visiting it 2 years ago (he lives abroad) he was not pleased to see that a topograph has been placed almost over the exact site he was working on. Erosion around this is quite bad and he thought might effect what remains underneath.

The site aparently needs further investigation.

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