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Eroding Iron Age fort repaired Hillfort Gloucestershire

Submitted by PaulM on Tuesday, 01 February 2005  Page Views: 4365

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Work to halt the erosion of an Iron Age hill fort in Gloucestershire is due to begin soon. Kimsbury Camp on Painswick Beacon is a popular beauty spot, visited by local people and walkers on the Cotswold Way.

The £85,000 facelift will include repairs to erosion scars and ramparts, scrub clearance and the provision of sensitively located information boards.

Parts of the site will be fenced off during the work, which is due to be completed by the end of May.

County archaeologist Jan Wills said: "It's a nationally important archaeological site.

"It's suffered considerable erosion over the years. We are undertaking repair work to protect the site and improve access."

The work also involves the construction of retaining structures within the erosion scars, which will be backfilled with limestone rubble.

This will be finished with a thin layer of topsoil and the re-establishment of suitable wildflower and grass seeds.

Most of the funding for the project has come from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Gloucestershire Environmental Trust.

Source: BBCi, 1 February 2005
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Re: Eroding Iron Age fort repaired by Andy B on Tuesday, 01 February 2005
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We seem to have this site listed under another name, as Painswick Beacon: http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=4698
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Re: Eroding Iron Age fort repaired by PaulM on Tuesday, 01 February 2005
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From This Is Gloucestershire:

ANCIENT HILL FORT REPAIRS TO START

10:30 - 01 February 2005

A Public meeting will explain repairs planned to a nationally important Iron Age hill fort at Painswick. The session tonight at the Town Hall will provide an update on the work that is due to start at Kimsbury Camp on Painswick Beacon next week.

Kimsbury, which is protected as a scheduled ancient monument, is one of a number of Iron Age forts along the Cotswold scarp edge.

But its ramparts have eroded and so the Gloucestershire County Council archaeology service and the Painswick Beacon Conservation Group have planned works on the site that should be finished by the end of June.

The project is intended to enhance the site for visitors and will repair erosion gullies on the ramparts.

Scrub will also be cleared to improve the important grassland and a limited number of sensitively site information boards will be erected.

Countryside adviser to the county council Nick Russell said: "We hope that by undertaking these works now, before the damage gets too bad, we will ensure that visitors are able to continue to enjoy the archaeology, ecology and views from this wonderful hill fort."

Work is due to start on February 8 and will include the archaeological excavation and recording of a series of steps up the erosion gullies.

The meeting starts at 8pm this evening.

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Re: Eroding Iron Age fort repaired by PaulM on Tuesday, 01 February 2005
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From the Western Daily Press:

PROJECT SET TO SAVE IRON AGE HILLFORT

09:52 - 01 February 2005

Important work to protect an Iron Age hillfort which is home to rare plants is due to get under way next week. Details of the restoration scheme at Kimsbury Camp, a scheduled ancient monument on Painswick Beacon, near Gloucester, will be discussed at a public meeting tonight.

Representatives from the county council's archaeology service and the Painswick Beacon Conservation Group will host the meeting at Painswick Town Hall.

The work includes repairing the ramparts of the hillfort, scrub clearance, seed planting and the siting of information boards.

Nick Russell, the county council's countryside adviser, said: "We hope that by undertaking these works now, before the damage gets too bad, we will ensure visitors are able to enjoy the archaeology, ecology and views from this wonderful hillfort."

The work, scheduled to begin on February 8, is due to finish by the end of June.
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