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<< Our Photo Pages >> Scholes Wood - Hillfort in England in Yorkshire (South)

Submitted by vicky on Monday, 14 October 2002  Page Views: 12996

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Scholes Wood
Country: England County: Yorkshire (South) Type: Hillfort

Map Ref: SK395952  Landranger Map Number: 110
Latitude: 53.452085N  Longitude: 1.406667W
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.
 3 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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dagadd visited on 1st Feb 2015 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Plenty of litter around, which I cleared. Plenty of trees growing from the ramparts. No information board (two local dog-walkers had no idea what it was), although one would probably be destroyed.

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Scholes Wood
Scholes Wood submitted by jfarrar : Rampart of Caesar's Camp, Scholes Coppice (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hillfort in South Yorkshire

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Scholes Wood
Scholes Wood submitted by dagadd : The ramparts at Caesar's Camp (who named it thus?), Scholes Coppice. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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SK3995 : Caesar's Camp or Castle Holmes by Martin Speck
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SK3995 : Trees in Scholes Coppice by Glyn Drury
by Glyn Drury
©2010(licence)
SK3995 : Scholes Wood by John Charlton
by John Charlton
©2007(licence)
SK3995 : Rotherham Roundwalk towards Scholes Coppice by Ian S
by Ian S
©2014(licence)
SK3995 : Rotherham Roundwalk enters Scholes Coppice by Ian S
by Ian S
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Re: Scholes Wood by Anonymous on Thursday, 18 February 2016
I have visited this site on several occasions and I find it hard to believe that this is little more than a naturally occurring part of the landscape, it has no military advantages as it is in a hollow, to the west the approach has a downhill gradient of around 1in15 dipping north east, there is higher ground to the north east of at least 30 meters which makes it very vulnerable to attack, at best it is a hideout or overnight camp in the lea of the woodland out of sight of would be attackers of herdsmen, in my opinion it does not resemble a hill fort or any type of ancient landscaped defended area that I have ever seen, it has not got any features that one could associate with a defendable position and no evidence has ever been produced to the contrary, its no more than wishful thinking and thats why its not a scheduled monument, sorry folks its a no go for me.
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Re: Scholes Wood by jfarrar on Tuesday, 20 February 2007
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Locally this encampment is known as Caesar's Camp, also once known as Castle Holmes. This was an Iron Age encampment probably built sometime between 750 BCE and 42CE. It is now situated in Scholes Coppice a wood that formed part of the Wentworth Woodhouse Estate Park. It consisted of an earthen rampart with a deep ditch on the outside. No entrance has been found, possibly because one of the paths cut in the early 18th century went through parts of the earthworks destroying their original shape. Another theory is that there was a timber bridge across the rampart into the camp. The area of the camp covers about ¾ of an acre. Oddly, it is overlooked on three sides by surrounding hillsides – normally camps are built with all round visibility of the countryside (and, of course, there would not have been a wood here when the camp was occupied). Excavations in 1991/2 revealed there was probably a wooden palisade on the ramparts. Roman pottery and iron slag were found in the ditch.

It is, incidentally, in South Yorkshire.

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