Quarry Wood Camp

Also known as:
Boughton Green Settlement and Boughton Quarry Camp
Nearest town:
Maidstone (4km NW)
OS reference:
TQ76565158
OS sheet:
188
Latitude:
51° 14' 7.75 N
Longitude:
0° 31' 45.96 E
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Image of Quarry Wood Camp (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by GLADMAN

From the east. Isn’t it curious – if not criminal – how the owner of the house to the right was somehow allowed to erect a wooden deck upon a scheduled ancient monument?

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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Image of Quarry Wood Camp (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by GLADMAN

The most substantial remaining length of defences from Berefords Hill to the east. Again, this is as close as I could get without having the local constabulary called.

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Looking across the ploughed out – or never completed... surely not? – southern flank to the western.

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The clearly quite substantial western flank from the south. Unfortunately, this was as close as I could get... despite engaging over the fence with a local who suddenly appeared walking his dog to the monument’s left a minute or so later. You won’t be surprised to hear he had no idea what occupied the field beside him. Hey, ho.

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Quarry Wood Camp
Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
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GLADMAN May 11, 2023

I found this to be a rather sad place for those with a semblance of an inquiring mind – inhabited by locals with (apparently) no knowledge of what lies within their midst – if only to judge by a guy walking his dog within the fenceline (He: ‘Sorry, there’s no hillfort here’; Me: Err.. apart from that great big earthen bank beside you, you mean?) and several similarly bemused passers-by. All very nice, friendly people, but... the mind does boggle, as they say.

So antiquarians be warned: the interior has been transformed into an orchard/Scout Camp, meaning there’s no ‘reasonable’ access without having the (apparently) belligerent landowner upon your case. Incidentally, I do hope said landowner does not dwell within the house at the bottom of Beresford Hill to the east, however, since damaging a scheduled ancient monument by erecting wooden structures upon it is obviously a criminal offence. Unlike trespass. Whatever, it’s such a shame to waste our precious heritage upon people with no concept of what it represents, but hey.

Nonetheless, worth a look from the environs in passing – I had an hour or so to spare – since there remains some pretty hefty earthworks here.

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