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Submitted by 4clydesdale7 on Thursday, 01 September 2011 Page Views: 9191

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Roel Camp Alternative Name: Roel Gate Camp, Charlton Abbots Camp
Country: England County: Gloucestershire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Winchcombe Nearest Village: Charlton Abbots
Map Ref: SP04682434
Latitude: 51.917568N Longitude: 1.933363W
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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
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-1	Completely destroyed

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4 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
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5	co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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3	co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
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4clydesdale7 visited on 31st Aug 2011 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 5 There is a lot more to be learned about Roel - field walking to the E (although over pasture) should reveal a large flint scatter

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**Roel Camp** submitted by h_fenton : Roel Camp, photographed from the east. Kite Aerial Photograph 15 October 2011 @ 4.56pm (Vote or comment on this photo)

One of the earliest Hillforts in Gloucestershire on the W Cotswold Scarp, built in the late Bronze/early Iron Age, it is positioned 0.5 mile to the E of and above Charlton Abbots. Now laid to pasture this fort has suffered from earlier ploughing during the time before the medieval village of Roel was deserted.

There is a substantial flint scatter between the site of the Camp and that of the Village. The design of the Camp is said to be of the type 'Phase 1', viz a single bank and ditch although recently 'geophys' has suggested that there is an internal ditch. There are 2 small medieval quarries within the Camp which encloses approx. 2.5 acres

The Camp stands very close to an extremely ancient track called 'The Saltway' or 'Campden Track', which is almost as straight as the much later Roman roads.

As it is so easy to get to it is well worth a visit - you can see Beckbury Camp to the NNE.

Witts Ancient Camp No 23 (Charlton Abbots);

Pastscape 327968
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SP0424 : View from above Charlton Abbots by Philip Halling — by Philip Halling
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SP0424 : Roel Camp [1] by Michael Dibb — by Michael Dibb
©2012(licence)

SP0424 : Earthworks from an ancient camp high on the Cotswold escarpment by Philip Halling — by Philip Halling
©2005(licence)

SP0424 : Road side reservoir by Michael Dibb — by Michael Dibb
©2012(licence)

SP0424 : Roel Camp [2] by Michael Dibb — by Michael Dibb
©2012(licence)

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