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Image of Chipping Hill Camp (Hillfort) by GLADMAN

Looking across the railway to Chipping Hill Camp – or at least where it once stood – from the car park of the Labour Hall.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone

GLADMAN Feb 25, 2012

Looking across the River Brain toward the site of poor Chipping Hill Camp [top left], now submerged beneath a housing estate. The viaduct carries the railway across the river, ironically the construction of which, in 1850, unearthed solid dating evidence for the site.... three burials with Iron Age La Tene II-III pokers.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone

GLADMAN Feb 25, 2012

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Chipping Hill Camp

Hillfort

GLADMAN Jan 20, 2018

Chipping Hill is the site of a bivallate earthwork, traces of which remain (apparently, since I could not clearly identify them myself) beneath the modern buildings which now occupy the area.

Reputably the location of a Saxon burh built by Edward The Elder, pottery associated with the outer defences has yielded a Mid Iron Age date... so it would seem we are looking at a case of progressive site adaptation here.

It was the coming of the railway which, while cutting through the rampart during construction of the viaduct in 1850, ironically shed conclusive light upon a prehistoric presence upon the hilltop: the discovery of three burials with Iron Age La Tene II-III pokers. That’ll do.

Pastscape has details at:

heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MEX26167&resourceID=1001