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Beausale camp is a multivallate hillfort located in Warwickshire, England, comprising multiple concentric defensive earthworks characteristic of Iron Age fortifications. The site demonstrates the sophisticated defensive engineering employed by Iron Age communities in the Midlands, with its parallel banks and ditches designed to afford protection and control access to the interior settlement area. The hillfort is registered on the National Heritage List for England under entry 1011370 and remains a significant archaeological monument illustrative of Iron Age settlement patterns and territorial organisation in the region.
Beausale camp, a multivallate hillfort is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011370. View the official record →
Beausale camp is a multivallate hillfort located in Warwickshire, England, comprising multiple concentric defensive earthworks characteristic of Iron Age fortifications. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011370.
Beausale camp, a multivallate hillfort is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1011370.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including St Michael's Hospital, Warwick (5.6 km), St Sepulchre's Priory (6.1 km), Site of St Mary's College (6.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Beausale camp, a multivallate hillfort's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Beausale camp, a multivallate hillfort stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.