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Membury Hillfort

This is a view of the inner rampart surrounding this important iron-age hillfort which extends over an area of 34 acres (the ground on the left is part of the flat inner fort area). The fort stands on clay with flints on a chalk subsoil which today is mostly cultivated alongside woodland SU3075 : Membury Camp. Located just half a mile south-west of Membury Services on the M4 motorway, the hillfort is one of the most ancient sites in the region (the Berkshire-Wiltshire border bisects the fort). Roman-British pottery fragments were found here by excavations between 1977-87. But significant finds have also included flint artefacts from the mesolithic era (8000-4000 BC) which followed the last ice age, and flint tools from the neolithic era (4000-2000 BC) prior to the iron age. Link. See other views at SU3075 and Gallery at: Link