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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Bury Hill Camp (Winterbourne)Country: England County: Gloucestershire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Bristol Nearest Village: Winterbourne
Map Ref: ST652791 Landranger Map Number: 172
Latitude: 51.509749N Longitude: 2.502835W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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4clydesdale7 visited on 6th Sep 2011 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 2 Access: 4 Needs proper management asap and to be cleared of unsightly detritus
TheCaptain have visited here
The fort today is generally a round cornered rectangle in shape, on an approximately north/south axis. The long western side of the fort is along a steep hill edge above the river Frome, which flows from the cotswold edge near Chipping Sodbury into Bristol. The other three sides are generally on fairly flat land.
A large proportion of the western side has been destroyed by quarrying into the hillside. The remaining 3 sides are made up of a central ditch, with ramparts built on both the inner and outer sides of the ditch, with strangely the outer rampart generally the higher.
It is thought that the Romans took over this fort, and modified it to suit their needs, which perhaps explains the slightly odd ditch and rampart arrangement.
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