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Chastleton Camp, Oxfordshire, a hill-fort of the Early Iron Age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

E. Thurlow Leeds
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Chastleton Camp, or Chastleton Barrow (pl. LIV, 1 and 2), as it is sometimes called, is situated at the south-east end of the parish, which projects like some huge spur from the north-west edge of the county and from the line of the road which on either side of the base of the spur for a short distance divides Oxfordshire from Gloucestershire on the one hand and from Warwickshire on the other. This road is an age-long trackway running diagonally across England by way of the Jurassic Belt from the Cotswolds to Northamptonshire, and is fringed by many remains of prehistoric man, in addition to the Rollright Stones and the dolmen known as the Whispering Knights. Along it must have moved the invaders of the early Iron Age to their conquest of the Midlands, establishing a line of strongholds of which Chastleton must in its original condition have been a formidable example.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , October 1931 , pp. 382 - 398
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1931

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References

page 382 note 1 Robert Plot, Natural History of Oxfordshire, c. 10, § 74, in treating of Oxfordshire camps, speaks of ‘these Fortifications (at most Places in this County abusively called Barrows)’.

page 382 note 1 O. G. S. Crawford, The Long Barrows of the Cotswolds.

page 383 note 1 It is interesting to compare a summary communicated to C. Roach Smith, published in Collectanea Antiqua, vii, 108, in which Price, having by that time drawn his conclusions as to the date of the camp, writes ‘deposits of Roman pottery’.