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Freezing Hill Camp
Date Added: 19th Aug 2011
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 19th Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Freezing Hill Camp submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 19th Aug 2011. The W bank and ditch from NNW.
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Log Text: Superb views to SW, W and NW - worth the effort
The Grickstone
Date Added: 24th Aug 2011
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 24th Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
The Grickstone submitted by TheCaptain on 13th Apr 2004. Nice standing stone to the south of Grickstone farm, beside a footpath at the corner of a small wood. The stone has about 6 foot in length above ground, but due to the angle at which it leans, is only about 4 feet high. Nicely decorated with lichens. South Gloucestershire, ST777828.
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Log Text: Worth the extra effort - footpath quite heavily overgrown
Horton Camp
Date Added: 24th Aug 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 24th Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Horton Camp submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Mar 2004. Horton Camp Hillfort, South Gloucestershire, ST765845, March 2004.
View looking northwest along the remaining bank across the top of the hill. There is no sign of a ditch. The "inside" of the camp is to the left.
I may well be wrong, but I think that this bank may be a former internal division of what was once a much bigger camp taking in the entire promontary, not just the southern end.
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Log Text: Wonderful views from SW round to NW with Drakestone Point and Brackenbury Ditches easily made out but why are Horton and Sodbury Camps so close to each other (1.5km) - Sodbury has larger earthworks Horton has the Cotswold Scarp
Kingscote Standing Stones
Date Added: 25th Aug 2011
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 24th Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Kingscote Standing Stones submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 24th Aug 2011. Now can you see it?
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Log Text: Difficult to find but the reward is twofold - an isolated standing stone and some sloes
Old Sodbury
Date Added: 25th Aug 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 24th Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Old Sodbury submitted by Thorgrim on 18th Oct 2003. The internal banks and ditches are rectangular with rounded corners, very like the layout of Roman forts. This suggests that a Roman fort has been added to an earlier one.
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Log Text: I am uncomfortable with the suggestion that this could be pre-Roman
Lady's Well (Gloucestershire)
Date Added: 29th Aug 2011
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 28th Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Lady's Well (Gloucestershire) submitted by HOLYWELL on 22nd Mar 2008. The Lady Well at Hempsted Gloucestershire. This well preserved ancient well has a carving on the back said to represent St Anne and the Virgin but it is well worn. Water fills a trough below.
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Log Text: Close to the W entrance of Hempsted Camp - even the Victorians were into graffiti carving messages inside
Dursley Merestone
Date Added: 29th Aug 2011
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 28th Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Dursley Merestone submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 29th Aug 2011. There it is just nestling by the side of the footpath so easy to spot.
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Log Text: How can Sullivan not have seen this - perhaps he never thought to check it out - it certainly is not 'old' - nice boundary stone but no more than that
Hempsted Camp
Date Added: 1st Sep 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 28th Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Hempsted Camp submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 29th Aug 2011. The S bank looking W
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Log Text: There is more to this site than the fact that it is of Roman design and build - like Sodbury there could well have been an Iron Age Fort previously
Roel Camp
Date Added: 1st Sep 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Roel Camp submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 1st Sep 2011. The View NNE across the Camp towards Beckbury Camp bathed in Sunshine (telephoto lens)
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Log Text: There is a lot more to be learned about Roel - field walking to the E (although over pasture) should reveal a large flint scatter
Farmcote gatepost
Date Added: 2nd Sep 2011
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Farmcote gatepost submitted by h_fenton on 31st Aug 2008. An old stone gatepost(?- no hinges) at Farmcote in Gloucestershire (Cotswolds near Winchcombe). Most stone gateposts across the cotswolds are square in section c.40x40cm and stand upto 1.5metres high with a rounded top. This gatepost is unusual, in that it is a rough triangular shaped stone which has then been extensively carved and shaped on three sides, with recesses that suggest it had wooden posts tightly against it, plus some small rectangular sockets of unknown function. There are also som...
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Log Text: Farmcote is a tiny hamlet not often visited - the local farmer's sister runs a Chilli Garden with some superb relishes
Beckbury Camp
Date Added: 2nd Sep 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Beckbury Camp submitted by Briton on 31st Jan 2011. Frosty morning on the ramparts of Beckbury Camp in the Cotswolds.
January 2009.
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Log Text: Beckbury Camp has quite a few surprises - ancient tracks - large stones - and more
Guiting Power Round Barrow 3
Date Added: 2nd Sep 2011
Site Type: Timber Circle
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Aug 2011. My rating: Condition -1
Guiting Power Round Barrow 3 submitted by simonsworn on 18th May 2005. The reconstructed barrow, facing west.
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Log Text: 'Designer Barrow' - a poor modern reproduction
Notgrove
Date Added: 2nd Sep 2011
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
Notgrove submitted by bec-zog on 5th Oct 2003. SP 095212. View of Notgrove Barrow in 1971 when the stones were exposed. Site was subsequently re-covered for protection purposes.
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Log Text: The GCC Tomb Raider has not been here yet - just general decay
Churchdown Hill Camp
Date Added: 5th Sep 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 4th Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Churchdown Hill Camp submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 4th Sep 2011. Soldiers' Walk from above
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Log Text: To the Archaeology tutor and his faithful 'pupils' - your perseverance and tenacity (in 1972) paid off (see site narrative) - I hope Severn-Trent Water Board (thus they are now known) need to refurbish pipes etc again and that people of your calibre are brought in to investigate - pity about the reservoirs - they are a dreadful eyesore
Red Well (Matson)
Date Added: 5th Sep 2011
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 4th Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Red Well (Matson) submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 5th Sep 2011. The Well from above (having just avoided injury from the HSE railings).
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Log Text: Well and nearby lake quite delightful - grey shed green railings and general area not so -
Bury Hill Camp (Winterbourne)
Date Added: 6th Sep 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 6th Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Bury Hill Camp (Winterbourne) submitted by TheCaptain on 27th Mar 2004. Bury Hill Camp, near Winterbourne Down, South Gloucestershire.
View of the ditch and ramparts of the eastern side. The inside of the fort is to the right of this picture
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Log Text: Needs proper management asap and to be cleared of unsightly detritus
Blisbury Hill Camp
Date Added: 7th Sep 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Blisbury Hill Camp submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 6th Sep 2011. The Camp from the SW with Pennyhay Lane running NE towards Bevington
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Log Text: I like the ancient trackway Pennyhay Lane as much as the Hillfort itself - nice spot
Tytherington Camp
Date Added: 7th Sep 2011
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Tytherington Camp submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 6th Sep 2011. The Inner Camp looking towards the NW entrance
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Log Text: M5 and quarry have caused problems but this is still an attractive Camp
Magdalen Mead Well
Date Added: 10th Sep 2011
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Magdalen Mead Well submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 7th Sep 2011. The Well now converted into two ponds - unfortunately the Water is now unpalatable because of pollution from industry in the area
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Log Text: Not much evidence of the original well but tidy restoration (creating two ponds) all the same
Worswell
Date Added: 10th Sep 2011
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 6th Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Worswell submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 7th Sep 2011. The Well set in beautiful surroundings
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Log Text: This is lovely