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Norbury Camp (Farmington)

Norbury Hill Fort, Farmington

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Paulus P
Paulus Dec 30, 2005 16:35:25
Replying to Chris Colton

Hi Chris!

Welcome to TMA. This site - TMA's "Norbury Camp 1" - is described in the Royal Commission's English county survey for Gloucestershire, 1976 (Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments volume), in the parish entry for Northleach with Eastington:

"Norbury Camp (SP 127155), univallate hill-fort, unexcavated, encloses 80 acres on a promontory between re-entrant valleys, 1 mile NE of Northleach. The W and E sides of the fort are defined by banks set along the extremities of a slight eminence; the N and S sides are defined by the edges of the promontory, accentuated in part at least by scarping. On the N, a low bank set on a terrace beneath the scarp edge and extending for about 220ft along the inner side of a track may be the northern 'mound' mentioned by Witts.* The ploughed W bank, 50ft wide, rises 1.5ft above the interior and contains limestone blocks up to 3ft long; the ditch shows only as a crop-mark. The E bank, about 16ft wide and 2ft high, ends 200ft S of the steeply scarped NE corner; no ditch is visible. Original entrances, used by modern roads, may be represented by a gap near the centre of the E bank and by a hollow-way in the S scarp."

There are a few b&w diagrams of this and adjacent monuments in the book which I can scan & email if you like. Gimme your email details and I'll gerrem to you.

* This reference is to G.B. Witts', "Archaeological Handbook to the County of Gloucestershire," Cheltenham n.d. (c.1883)

B baza
baza Dec 30, 2005 18:49:56
Replying to Paulus

Here's the entry for Norbury in Witts' Archaeological Handbook:

"In the parish of Farmington there is a large camp known as Norbury. It lies close to the village, one mile from Northleach, and half a mile to the east of the Fosse Way. It occupies the ridge of a hill, the north and east sides being defended by a single mound. On the south the slope of the hill has been artificially scarped, and on the west a mound and ditch cross the ridge on a curved line. The area thus enclosed is about 80 acres. The intrenchments, though still to be traced, have been much reduced by cultivation in some parts. Towards the west end of the enclosure there is a long barrow, and on the outside stands a round barrow. To the east are the remains of a Roman villa. An ancient road, probably the Green Way, seems to run through the camp from east to west; and another old road, called Letch Lane, leads from the east end to Salmonsbury Camp, near Bourton-on-the-Water. "