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Lydney Castle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

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In 1929, during the excavation of a prehistoric and Roman site upon Camp Hill in Lord Bledisloe's deer-park at Lydney, on the borders of the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, a reputed earthwork upon the adjoining Little Camp Hill (fig. 1) was trenched and found to contain the remains of a small stone-built castle. The existence of this castle had not been previously noted, as the site has no known history and the remains of the walls are completely covered by the grassgrown banks of their own debris. The site had been regarded locally as that of a small camp, associated with the larger Roman ‘camp’ on the opposite hill. On the Ordnance maps it appears under the name Outpost.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1931

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page 249 note 1 Abbreviatio Placitorum 26. 2 John, Michaelmas term. Record Commission. I am indebted to Mr. F. H. Harris of Lydney for this reference.

page 250 note 1 The history of the forest during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, so far as it can be recovered, has been very fully treated by Margaret Ley Bazeley, from whose paper this information has been gathered. Trans. Brist. and Glos. Arch. Soc. xxxiii, p. 153.

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