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King's Weston Hill stockpound
Date Added: 6th Nov 2023
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 29th Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
King's Weston Hill stockpound submitted by theCaptain on 13th Apr 2012. plan on the noticeboard showing the various items of historical interest on the King's Weston Hill ridgetop
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Log Text: A few hundred metres west along the hilltop ridge from the Kings Weston Hillfort can be seen the remains of a large circular earthwork, of unsure date. People have been living and working on this hilltop ridge since neolithic times, and it is thought that this earthwork is some sort of stockpound dating from perhaps bronze or iron age times. It is a very pleasant spot up on this hilltop, surrounded by the northwestern suburbs of Bristol, but you would hardly know it, and can easily get taken back in time while up here.
King's Weston Hill barrow cemetary
Date Added: 6th Nov 2023
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 29th Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
King's Weston Hill barrow cemetary submitted by theCaptain on 13th Apr 2012. Walk several hundred metres west along the hilltop ridge from the Kings Weston Hillfort, past the large circular earthwork, across the roman road and its earthwork bank, and the open grassland of the hilltop now has several bushy clumps dotted around.
Some of these clumps hide the remains of several bronze age burial mounds.
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Log Text: Walk several hundred metres west along the hilltop ridge from the Kings Weston Hillfort, past the large circular earthwork, across the roman road and its earthwork bank, and the open grassland of the hilltop now has several bushy clumps dotted around. Some of these clumps hide the remains of several bronze age burial mounds. The burial mounds are not in the best of condition, but are thought to date back to almost 2000BC. It is a very pleasant spot up on this hilltop, surrounded by the northwestern suburbs of Bristol, but you would hardly know it, and can easily get taken back in time while up here.
King's Weston Hillfort
Date Added: 6th Nov 2023
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 29th Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
King's Weston Hillfort submitted by theCaptain on 13th Apr 2012. The northeastern end of the ridge that is Kings Weston Hill.
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Log Text: At the northeastern end of the ridge that is Kings Weston Hill, now in the northwestern suburbs of Bristol, is to be found the remains of an iron age hillfort and farmstead. It is situated in parkland, just to the southwest of the more impressive Blaise Castle. The hill and immediately surrounding area is nowadays parkland, a part of the Blaise Castle estate. The steeply sloping sides of the hill are thick woodland, while the flat top of the ridge is open grassland, and makes for a nice walk. There is an informative noticeboard. The defended enclosure at the end of the ridge has been dated to 800BC and was in use until Roman times. The steep northern edge of the ridge still has some remains of earthern ramparts, while on the flat top of the hill is a rectangular banked enclosure.
Trewsbury Camp
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2013
Trewsbury Camp submitted by theCaptain on 12th May 2013. Trewsbury Camp as seen approaching from the north along the footpath from Coates
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Abson Church
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jul 2015
Abson Church submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Jul 2015. Aaaahhhh. At last I found it !
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Bitton Round Barrow
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Sep 2015
Bitton Round Barrow submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Sep 2015. Bitton Round Barrow and Horses
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Chipping Sodbury Stone Circle
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2016
Chipping Sodbury Stone Circle submitted by TheCaptain on 1st Jan 2016. New Years Day 2016 has been a foul miserable dark and wet day, so in a small effort to get myself out of the house, thought I'd go and get a couple of pictures of this fairly new stone circle. I dont know when this was constructed, I only noticed it for the first time sometime last year; it seems fairly new and I assume the stones are from the local quarry.
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Oldbury Standing Stone
Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Oldbury Standing Stone submitted by TheCaptain on 8th May 2016. On a warm sunny afternoon, I went for a good look for this, but found nothing to match the description. In fact, at some time in the past (since 1953) a whole load of drainage and seawall flood protection work has been done, which now contains the Oldbury Naite Rhine within substantial banks, with any of its little tributaries in the area now in underground culverts emptying through flap doors into the Rhine. The height of the banking is now well above what it would have been.
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Log Text: Went for a look for this stone on a hot sunny June afternoon as part of a walk around Oldbury. Despite being 99% sure where it was to be found, I initially didn't find it as it was totally overgrown, and not under the new footpath gate, but an old wooden bit of fence to the side. With a bit of trampling on the long grass, I got to see the whole stone. Great to see it, it would be a splendid standing stone.
St Arilda's, Oldbury-on-Severn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2016
St Arilda's, Oldbury-on-Severn submitted by TheCaptain on 12th May 2016. Viewed from the graveyard to the north, showing the steep raise then flat top.
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Alveston Round Barrow
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2016
Alveston Round Barrow submitted by TheCaptain on 12th May 2016. Remains of a round barrow in the middle of a field beside the intriguingly named Vattingstone Lane, opposite the school entrance at the northwest of the village of Alveston.
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Ashmead Well
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Apr 2017
Ashmead Well submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Apr 2017. Ancient spring beside the lane at the bottom of the steep bluebell and wild garlic covered hillside to the north of the River Frome and the disused Thames and Severn Canal, below the village of Oakridge.
The well is just set back from the roadside, with a little plaque, and a notice board just over the road, stating that it has been used for human and animal consumption for all history, and has stories of its healing properties.
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Wick Burial Chamber (Gloucestershire)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jul 2017
Wick Burial Chamber (Gloucestershire) submitted by TheCaptain on 15th Jul 2017. It is still there, but getting well overgrown and hidden by the tree growing within it. The hedges around the field are now so big that the only place to see it from is the well locked gate.
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Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Aug 2017
Hoar Stone at Duntisbourne submitted by TheCaptain on 23rd Aug 2017. "Seven years ago photographer David Quentin began capturing surreal, alien-like scenes of rocks falling from the sky at locations across the UK. It all started when the London-based photographer threw a stone into the air and took a picture of it to see how it looked..."
See more at this article
Photo Credit: David Quentin
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Long Stone (Minchinhampton)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Sep 2017
Long Stone (Minchinhampton) submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Sep 2017. Nearby in the field wall is another stone standing there, which may once have been a standing stone.
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Lydney Harbour
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 17th Feb 2019
Lydney Harbour submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Feb 2019. A modern circle of standing stones, with outliers, constructed between Lydney Harbour and the Severn Estuary.
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Offa's Dyke near Brockweir
Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 27th May 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Offa's Dyke near Brockweir submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Apr 2020. Beware. There may be dragons and monsters
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Log Text: Well preserved and significantly built section of Offa's Dyke high up on the eastern side of the River Wye near the village of Brockweir. The Offa's Dyke path is well used here, and in places offers splendid views over the river to Wales, especially at the well known "Devil's Pulpit" rock stack allowing intrepid visitors a superb vista of Tintern Abbey.
Horton Camp
Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Horton Camp submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Mar 2004. Horton Camp Hillfort, South Gloucestershire, ST765845, March 2004.
View looking northwest along the remaining bank across the top of the hill. There is no sign of a ditch. The "inside" of the camp is to the left.
I may well be wrong, but I think that this bank may be a former internal division of what was once a much bigger camp taking in the entire promontary, not just the southern end.
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Log Text: Friday afternoon 10k walk, north from Old Sodbury along the Cotswold Edge through two ancient forts, past three old churches and lots of big houses to Horton Court. Back over fields through Little Sodbury. Stopped for a pint at the Dog afterwards.
Old Sodbury
Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Old Sodbury submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Aug 2020. View east between the fortifications from the outer bank of Old Sodbury Camp
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Log Text: Friday afternoon 10k walk, north from Old Sodbury along the Cotswold Edge through two ancient forts, past three old churches and lots of big houses to Horton Court. Back over fields through Little Sodbury. Stopped for a pint at the Dog afterwards.
Drakestone Camp
Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Aug 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Drakestone Camp submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 6th Jul 2011. One of the middle banks and ditches
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Log Text: Walk round the Korea Friendship Trail from Dursley on a bright and breezy Sunday afternoon with a pint in the Old Spot afterwards. The views up here are tremendous, and with various other nearby viewpoints you get a full 360 degrees. Even on this not very clear day, as well as almost the entire length of the Cotswold Edge, I could make out the Mendip Hills, Bristol Channel, Black Mountains, Malvern Hills.
Hawkesbury Knoll
Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 7th Aug 2020
Hawkesbury Knoll submitted by TheCaptain on 15th Apr 2004. Hawksbury Knoll, Chambered Tomb, South Gloucestershire, ST768872.
The view of the barrow atop Hawkesbury Knoll from the Somerset Monument.
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Log Text: Seen up on the top of the Cotswold Edge during a hot and humid Friday afternoon 11k walk, north from Hawkesbury Upton to the monument, then down the Cotswold Edge to Inglestone Common, south to Hawkesbury Common and on to Horton Court before going back up the Cotswold Edge and along the Cotswold Way andd "Yellow Brick Road" to Hawkesbury and a pint at the Beaufort Arms afterwards.