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<< Our Photo Pages >> Beckbury Camp - Hillfort in England in Gloucestershire
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Submitted by vicky on Monday, 07 October 2002 Page Views: 7176
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Re: Beckbury Camp (Score: 1)
by 4clydesdale7 on Thursday, 01 September 2011
(User Info | Send a Message) | This site is well worth a visit particularly as your visit will have a few little extras added - the Camp is a single bank and ditch 'univallate' Iron Age Hillfort essentially rectangular in shape lying N-S measuring 170m by 130m with its ramparts some 5m high - it is protected on its N and W sides by the steep W Cotswold scarp and has an area of approx 4 acres - the S rampart has a much later addition of a Cotswold dry stone wall built on top. Witts Camp No.9. Pastscape website 327715.
In the NW corner is a clump of beech trees (Cromwell's Clump - Thomas not Oliver) above which a stone monument with a seat has been erected - Glos. County Council names this as Cromwell's Seat but this name is not supported by English Heritage who own it (and Hailes Abbey below - which Cromwell supervised being dismantled in 1539).
The site is best approached from Stumps Cross - to get to the site you will pass along an Ancient Track called Campden Lane and you will pass a black wooden hen house/barn set upon staddle stones and a little further on a very large Boundary Stone which has been converted into a substantial gate post - I cannot find any reference to this Stone at all in historic records - placed anywhere else it would have archaeologists talking of Long Barrows and inhumations - it is 1.75m high and 0.5m thick
The views from the Camp are excellent and on a clear day it is suggested that another 12 hillforts are within sight | [ Reply to This ]
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 Wir möchten mehr über diese Stätte erfahren. Bitte zögern Sie nicht, eine kurze Beschreibung und relevante Informationen in Deutsch hinzuzufügen.
 Nous aimerions en savoir encore un peu sur les lieux. S'il vous plaît n'hesitez pas à ajouter une courte description et tous les renseignements pertinents dans votre propre langue.
 Quisieramos informarnos un poco más de las lugares. No dude en añadir una breve descripción y otros datos relevantes en su propio idioma. |
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