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Re: Wapley Camp by jfarrar on Monday, 22 September 2008


The camp uses the natural steep scarp slope for defence on the north side. To the south there are five ramparts and ditches, three being medial ditches, before the broad open area of the camp. The defences apparently cover a greater area than the central encampment.

On the western side of the fort there is a well in a small marshy pond. The date of the well is unknown. It is similar to ritual shafts found in Europe dating back to the Bronze Age, one is present on Salisbury Plain. Another theory is that it is a sacred well of the Roman-Celtic period. The presence of the four unexcavated “pillow mounds” would indicate an Iron Age sacred enclosure.

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