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<< Our Photo Pages >> Chastleton Camp - Hillfort in England in Oxfordshire

Submitted by vicky on Tuesday, 03 December 2002  Page Views: 12186

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Chastleton Camp
Country: England County: Oxfordshire Type: Hillfort
 Nearest Village: Chastleton
Map Ref: SP259282  Landranger Map Number: 163
Latitude: 51.951693N  Longitude: 1.624552W
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:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
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
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
3

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poho visited on 29th Dec 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Visited as part of a walk. Used as a field for horses currently, but the circular ditch and bank is still present and easy to see.

Hordernm visited on 31st Jul 2020 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3

4clydesdale7 visited on 8th Apr 2012 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 I am intrigued as to why this is also called 'Chastleton Barrow' - could 'Barrow' be a corruption of 'Bury' (in the local dialect where there 'y' is not pronounced) - and it is still populated by horses -

ChristopherJones visited - their rating: Amb: 5 Access: 3 Found it on a footpath on the search for Goose stones.

h_fenton have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 4.25 Access: 3.5

Chastleton Camp
Chastleton Camp submitted by h_fenton : Chastleton Camp from the South-East. 1994 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hillfort in Oxfordshire

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Chastleton Camp
Chastleton Camp submitted by h_fenton : Oblique Kite Aerial Photograph, taken from the south 26 December 2009 (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Chastleton Camp
Chastleton Camp submitted by ChristopherJones : Derelict sheds in the hillfort. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Chastleton Camp
Chastleton Camp submitted by ChristopherJones : 360 view of the hillfort. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Chastleton Camp Megalithic Portal Meet April 2006
Chastleton Camp Megalithic Portal Meet April 2006 submitted by mickm : Andy looks on whilst various discussions take place and anon makes a new horse friend. A special prize is awarded to Hamish (second left) for being in the same field as large & fierce animal, even though he has ensured that as many other members as possible are between him & said beast. (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Chastleton Camp - Megalithic Portal Meet April 2006
Chastleton Camp - Megalithic Portal Meet April 2006 submitted by TimPrevett : At Chastleton Camp, we had the company of this curious horse. Here Adam (Archaeology Safaris) makes a new friend, while the previously uneasy Squonk, and MickM (and everyone else, out of shot) look on! (3 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Chastleton Camp - Megalithic Portal Meet April 2006
Chastleton Camp - Megalithic Portal Meet April 2006 submitted by TimPrevett : At Chastleton Camp, we had the company of this curious horse. Squonk wasn't so easy about this equine interest. A different story for Adam... (1 comment)

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Re: Chastleton Camp by swan-of-avon on Thursday, 21 August 2014
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No way was this ever a hillfort.
Virtually indefensible it would have been over run in minutes.
Have sat within many times and I consider it was some sort of market or meeting place as it is just off a major ancient ridge route running South West/North East.
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Re: Chastleton Camp by h_fenton on Sunday, 27 December 2009
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Chastleton Barrow camp, a univallate hillfort on Adlestrop Hill in West Oxfordshire. The defences consist of a single stone rampart with a rubble core that is upto 14metres wide and varys between 2-4metres high. There is an outer ditch about 14m wide which has filled over the years and is barely visible now. The area within the camp is roughly 130metres across.

This type of site usually dates from the Late Bronze Age - Early Iron Age c.8th-5thcenturyBCE, but no datable evidence has come from this site in modern times.

There have not been any significant modern excavations on the site, in 1881 a section was dug through the bank which showed its construction, also found were fragments of prehistoric pottery and burnt bone.

Today the bank is covered in trees the area within the camp is permanent pasture as are the fields to the northwest, the fields to the southeast are arable.

A public footpath runs across the site so it can be easily visited
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