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<< Our Photo Pages >> Knole Park Camp - Hillfort in England in Gloucestershire

Submitted by 4clydesdale7 on Thursday, 29 March 2012  Page Views: 7025

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Knole Park Camp
Country: England County: Gloucestershire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Bristol  Nearest Village: Almondsbury
Map Ref: ST59638334
Latitude: 51.547499N  Longitude: 2.583578W
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
2 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
5

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4clydesdale7 visited on 29th Mar 2012 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Virtually destroyed by needless development and now (even today) more destructive works - all (originally) for a view - the same has happened elsewhere in Gloucestershire - take a look round Cheltenham

Knole Park Camp
Knole Park Camp submitted by 4clydesdale7 : SE scarp without the terracing - almost 'au naturel'. (Vote or comment on this photo)
There are times when the activities of our Victorian and Edwardian forebears could lead us to despair. Sheer greed and almost criminal negligence have caused us at times irretrievable loss - take this site. Technically it is a small oval Iron Age Hillfort or Camp standing high above the Lower Severn Vale guarding the lower SW end of the ancient trackway known as Cribb's Causeway (part of the Roman Road called the Ridgeway).

Immediately to the Northeast of the mouth of the River Avon stand three camps - this camp, Kings Weston Down Camp and Blaise Castle Camp (not the modern folly). Not only did they guard the Ridgeway but also the harbour at the mouth of the Avon which the Romans called Abone now silted up and called Sea Mills just east of Shirehampton. Cribb's Causeway gave its name to the massive regional shopping mall complex you see from the M5 on your way down to Devon and Cornwall. Believe it or not as you pass the Asda Hypermarket (at CC) there is a Round Barrow just opposite on the W side of the motorway - I digress - back to the activities of the Victorians and Edwardians.

This Hillfort also stood immediately over a Romano British Settlement known as Cattybrook (at the foot of the W end of the Camp's NW scarp). The settlement (now long gone) is divided now into two distinct parts; a garden nursery (formerly brickworks) and a massive stone quarry. Just to the North lay a deer park.

And the Camp? At first came a large house with terraced garden (since replaced with faux stone houses/cottages of no architectural distinction at all) and a lodge (a grade 2 listed building). So what used to be a beautifully situate hillfort has become a 'between the wars' unremarkable housing estate which used to have a superb view, which has now been spoiled, not just by development within the camp and at the foot of the scarp, but also by the fact that most of the aspect is now hidden by trees (inappropriately planted when the old house was built). You get the occasional glimpse of the two modern River Severn Road Bridges. Most of the univallate earthworks disappeared with the old terracing (with more terracing for the more modern houses) and all that terracing also defaced the scarp. All for a 'room with a view' which lasted at best for 100 years!

And the Archaeology? Lost forever it seems - some black Glastonbury pottery seen in 1923 but not recovered, the greedy developers had by then virtually destroyed any potential.

Mentioned in:-
(a) Samuel Rudders New History of Gloucestershire 1779 p222
(b) G.Witts Archaeological Handbook Gloucestershire 1888 Camp No.59
(c) Ed J Burrow Ancient Entrenchments and Camps of Gloucestershire 1924 p131
(d) pastscape South Gloucestershire; Almondsbury; Mon. 198659
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Knole Park Camp
Knole Park Camp submitted by 4clydesdale7 : The NW scarp (with discarded garden detritus). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Knole Park Camp
Knole Park Camp submitted by 4clydesdale7 : The modern terracing on the SE scarp (Vote or comment on this photo)

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ST5983 : Over Lane by Jonathan Billinger
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ST5983 : Over Lane near Knole Park by Ruth Riddle
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ST5983 : Entrance to Knole Park by Roger Cornfoot
by Roger Cornfoot
©2007(licence)
ST5983 : The Lodge, Over Lane, Almondsbury by Roger Cornfoot
by Roger Cornfoot
©2007(licence)
ST5983 : North end of Pegwell Wood by Jonathan Billinger
by Jonathan Billinger
©2008(licence)

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