If you have not yet visited this early Iron Age Hillfort then it must be put at the top of your priorities for this year - the views are spectacular in all directions - the best perhaps to the SW over the City of Bath closely followed by that over the River Avon to the SE towards the White Horse near Westbury (Wilts) - you may need binoculars to pick out the White Horse above the 'Westbury Cement Works Chimney' -
A short perambulation brings up several interesting items - ramparts faced with dry stone walls - a strong bank over the northern scarp - a counterscarp ditch to the south - the remnants of a medieval field strip system (with several stone strip markers) - medieval quarrying at the eastern end of the northern scarp - an inturned entrance to the northwest probably sitting above an old holloway -
The Camp was abandoned before the arrival of the Romans - there have been some excellent finds - two inhumations - arrowheads - scrapers - pottery - there is also evidence of iron working -
The site somehow hardly gets more than an honourable mention from the historians but worthwhile extra reading can be found in (a) Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society Vol 4(3) 1935; Vol 8(1) 1957 and Vol 9(3) 1962; (b) Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Vol 5 1880-1 p30 and Vol 96 1978 p13 (c) pastscape website: Bath & NE Somerset: Batheaston: Monument Number 203323
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