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The tumbled stones provide ideal conditions for mosses, ferns and stonecrop to grow.

Inner gate to outer gate.

The outer rampart, also built of stone but rather more overgrown than the inner rampart.

Summer Solstice, Chûn Downs.

The barrow remains very overgrown and locked inside a leg-shredding gorse surround.

One of my favourite standing stones, I love its many-angled aspects.

Summer Solstice 2018, looking towards Chun Downs.

Boslow Stone, summer Solstice 2018.

Stone 2.

Stone 3.

Stone 4.

Repaired Stone 5.

The capstone of the central barrow.

The chamber of the central barrow is getting quite overgrown.

The chambered central barrow, summer Solstice 2018.

The southwestern barrow. St Just is far right.

Looking across the southwestern barrow towards Carn Kenidjack.

The top of the southwestern barrow. I was shocked to realise it had been 5 years since I last came over to see these fine barrows up close.

Summer Solstice 2018.

Plan of the fort and Roman remains from the info board.

Iron Age bull bowl found in the fort.

Stonework in the southern entrance.

The original southern entrance.

The Roman bath house inside the fort, built right up against the western rampart.

Inside the fort, looking towards the eastern ramparts.

Ramparts at the northeastern corner of the fort.

The fort interior from the northern rampart. The River Severn and South Gloucestershire across the river can be seen in the distance.

Standing on the inner northern rampart, looking down on the outer rampart.

Northwestern rampart.

The fort is on top of the hill, seen from Plain Tree Valley to the west.

Looking up at the King Stone.

Detail of the Queen Stone.

King Stone and Queen Stone.

Looking down on the King Stone (centre) and Queen Stone (right).

Looking down on the Bambury Stone from Parson’s Folly.

The outermost rampart on the southern side of the fort.

The outer southern defences.

The inner rampart.

The western end of the inner rampart. The Malverns would be the obvious skyline feature from here, but the thick haze rendered visibility quite low.

The inner southern rampart. The hills around Belas Knap long barrow can be seen on the right.

The inner entrance, flanked by inturned banks.

The inner eastern rampart. The outer rampart can be seen some distance away over to the right.

The northern end of the eastern ramparts.

Outer rampart on the eastern side of the fort. The Cotswolds are the hills beyond.

Southern bank.