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Re: Honington Camp by biffvernon on Saturday, 11 October 2003

I've posted a pic of Honington Camp at www.biffvernon.freeserve.co.uk/ancaster.htm
Honington Fort is best approached from the A153. Stop at the turning to Honington village and walk up the hill following the track marked as a public footpath. There are no brown tourist signs or explanatory notice boards to indicate you are approaching Lincolnshire's most significant pre-Roman Ancient Monument. And, perhaps consequently, you are unlikely to meet another visitor.
The fort comprises a flat area, strangely asymmetrical but not far off an oval or rectangle, about 100 yards in length and 60 yards across. It is surrounded by a bank, a deep ditch, a second, large bank, another ditch and a third, smaller, bank. Perched atop the limestone escarpment, there are wide views to the fens and sea in the east and across the Trent valley in the west. Ermine street runs a mile off and its position far to the north-west where it forded the Trent at Littleborough is marked by the cooling towers of Cottam power station on the distant horizon. While the ancient Britons new nothing of electricity generation they may have had the road. It is likely that Ermine Street follows the course of an earlier trackway. Now the embankments protect a beautiful limestone meadow from agricultural encroachment.

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