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This is a earthern rampart circling the summit of a small conical hill to the south of Kirkby Stephen. The area within the rampart is fairly small, so this maybe was a temporary site, used by a small community when the area was unstable. Another theory is that it was a ritual site, aligned as it is to the sacred hill of the area, Wild Boar Fell.
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This is an excellent area. There is a hillfort, a settlement and ancient dykes criss-crossing this hill. Called Cleeve Cloud locally, this is as close as you could get to an ancient landscape in the Cotswolds. No enclosure, sheep wandering over the summit and a superb view over the Severn Vale to Wales.
The actual 'Cleeve Hill' itself has an earthwork surrounding it but walk along the ridge (the Cloud) you will come to a small hill fort that uses the sheer drop of the ridge as its forth side.
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Within Hunsbury Hill country park, to the south of Northampton, are the remains of an Iron Age camp site, this is an elevated site with a high inner bank, a deep ditch and outer bank. The site dates around 1000 – 500 BC.
The Hunsbury Ring Camp would have had an outer perimeter fence encompassing the dwellings which were no more than single room huts made up of timber and straw - normally round in shape. The Chieftain and retinue would have occupied the inner camp with their families whilst the rest farmed small plots in the Local area.
There is a reconstruction model of how it may have looked in use at the Central Museum and Art Gallery in Northampton.
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Roughly square topped hill with a visible bank rampart. Iron Age settlement. Fantastic view across countryside from summit. Highest point in Northamptonshire (224 metres above sea level). Sadly spoiled on one side with a dirt track for motorbikes. Possible connection with Borough Hill to the north east. No official access but a bridleway runs close by. The River Nene rises in a spring to the South east.
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