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Idbury is an univallate plateau-fort on the Oxfordshire Border with Gloucestershire. It has been virtually ploghed out now. I walked the site and could make out the edge of the camp nearly all the way round and on the east and north sides where the land drops away more it was quite easy. The photos don't really do the site the justice you need to visit it to appreciate it fully.
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Access to the camp is via a permissive footpath off mud lane in Restrop near Purton. it is An Iron Age multivallate hillfort. What I found unusual about the site was that the northern side of the earthworks was almost completely straight, maybe to impress visitors to the site. The entrance to the east where the farm gate is would appear to be the orignal.
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A large univallate iron age hill fort . The earthworks on the western side consist of 2 banks and a ditch which are in good condition but appear to have been flattened out in between by farm traffic. To the north there are various remains of ditch and bank but elsewhere there seems little sign of the original earthworks as there is a farm to the east and a farm track cuts across the southern side of the site. This track would appear to follow the original edge of the site. A nice spot though with really good views on all sides except the south.
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Ilbury Camp is a pear shaped univallate fort. It is well defined on its west side by a rampart About 3 metres high.The east side of the fort has been ploughed down but you can still work out the outline of the fort.
The break in the rampart in the centre of the southern side appears to be the original entrance.
The site commands good views all around and looking from the east is a very impressive looking site. Ilbury is believed to date from the iron age.
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Also known as Castle Grove Camp Wyfold Castle is an Iron age plateau fort. it is now overgrown with beech woods and the north side is overgrown with Rhododendron and Holly bushes. There is still an original entrance visible to the sw off the site which is offset either side of the causeway, all other entrances are modern . The best preserved part is the eastern side where there is a nice uninterrupted part of the earthwork.
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Hardwell Castle or Hardwell Camp is classed as an Iron Age valley fort, although, like nearby Cherbury Camp, it is not clearly in a strategic or easily defended position. It lies halfway down the scarp slope of the White Horse Hills and is tucked away in a curve, invisible from most angles.
Access to the Camp is through a hole in the fence about 10 m's from the gate on the main road. The northern facing earthworks are completely wooded over but are the most impressive with a ditch and bank up to 7 meters in height with 2 spurs coming off down to the level of the camp entrance. The eastern and western defences are natural gulleys enhanced by man made banks and ditches . The southern earthworks are about 8 ft in height as the inside of the fort is level with the countryside to the south. Well worth a visit but the site is used for pheasant pens so be careful.
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KIrkton Fort is Situated on Castle hill near Crawford in South Lanarkshire on the banks of the river Clyde. The fort is situated to the south of the site with the larger earthwork believed to be the site of the main settlement. It is one of three such forts situated on the same hill. It can be seen From the A702 and the M74 or close up from the aptly named Camps Road. Not to be confused with the fort of the same name just around the corner on the same hill.
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Castle Crawford Farm Fort is a Prehistoric Hill Fort Situated on Castle Hill near Crawford in South Lanarkshire on the banks of the river Clyde . It is one of three such forts situated on the same hill. It can be acessed via the aptly named camps road off the A702 as you leave Crawford
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KIrkton Fort is a small oval shaped Prehistoric Hill Fort Situated on Castle hill near Crawford in South Lanarkshire on the banks of the river Clyde . It is one of three such forts situated on the same hill. It can be seen From the A702 and the M74 or close up from the aptly named Camps Road.
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A summit of South Lanarkshire, Arbory Hill rises to 429m (1407 feet) a mile (1.5 km) east northeast of Abington. The remains of a well-preserved Iron Age hill-fort crowns the hill, comprising a walled enclosure and huts circles surrounded by a double rampart. The village of Abington, River Clyde, the A74(M) motorway and main-line railway are all squeezed into the narrow valley to the west
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Bodsberry Hill was an unenclosed plateau settlement believed to have been constructed in the Bronze Age between 2000 and 1500 bc. It is located next to the m74 About a mile south from junction 14 and can be told apart from surrounding hills by the fact there are no trees on the top of it.
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Devonshaw Hill fort is on a rocky knoll at the end of the steep-sided spur that projects SW from Devonshaw Hill, about 430m NE of Woodend farmhouse, is occupied by the remains of a fort and enclosure. . The site is located about 1 mile from Abington Service station at junction 13 of the m74, on the A702 Edinburgh Road and can be seen from some distance.
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Dunmore is a prehistoric fort on a prominent hill overlooking Callander. It is defended by the remains of four walls on all sides except the east where steep slopes provided sufficient defence. An enclosure below the fort on the north may be contemporary.
Dunmore is the most impressive of a number of forts in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs area. Most of them were probably constructed not simply for defence and security, but also to display the power and status of their builder
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This oval fort is situated at about 500 ft OD on the summit of a rocky hillock; it measures 152 ft NNW-SSE by 62 ft transversely. It is defended by a partly rock-cut ditch, 35 ft broad and 16 ft in maximum depth, starting at the brow of the steep slope on the W, passing round the E side to end on the cliffs in the S. Soil from the ditch forms a rampart above the counterscarp, while a parapet mound crowns the scarp in the N.
A well-defined approach enters into a slight hollow at the lowest point of the interior. An ill-defined outwork flanks the S side of the approach. In the interior are three slightly hollowed circular areas which may be hut sites.
RCAHMS 1920, visited 1913; R W Feachem 1956
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Hi i'm Ian Spent my school years In Andover Hants about 20 mins bike ride from Danebury Ring and most my adult life in Wantage in the Vale of the White Horse, so that explains my interest in all things ancient, Mainly hill forts. http://www.hillfortsofthevale.co.nr/
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