Neolithic Causewayed Enclosure & Battle Site – Iron Age Hill Fort – Iron Age Village – Post Roman Settlements – Enduring Religious Site – Beautiful Location.
Here is a chance to verify your dowsing against extensive previous excavations and to prospect undug areas.
BSD & BSD affiliated Members £5.00, visitors £10.00.
Location – Crickley Hill Country Park, Crickley Hill, Birdlip, Gloucestershire, GL4 8JY.
This is a joint event between the ADG and HADS. Celebrating the International Dowsing Day.
Meet at the Crickley Hill Country Park Visitors Centre at 10.30 for 11.00 start.
Plenty of pay and display car parking (£3 per day).
There will be an introduction to the site history, followed by the opportunity to compare your dowsing with the previous excavations.
Crickley Hill is an archaeologically significant and complex site on an prominent unploughed limestone spur of the North Cotswold escarpment with glorious views over the Vale of Gloucester.
Occupation dates from Neolithic times and continued at various periods until around 500 AD. The settlements were violently destroyed and put to fire on several occasions.
There is a Neolithic processional route which formed the basis of a religious site for at least 1000 years.
Extensive excavation work undertaken between 1969 to 1993 has revealed the violent nature of the occupations, site development throughout the occupation periods and religious knowledge possibly handed down by verbal tradition.
The settlements are some 200m walk from the visitors centre which has toilets and an interesting small exhibition room giving information on the park.
N.B. The site is exposed and has little shelter.
If the weather is fine there are two picnic areas for lunch, and numerous places on the site to sit and admire the view. Alternatively there is a pub, The Air Balloon, at the Birdlip Roundabout (about 5 minutes walk along the escarpment). The food is good but the pub can be crowded. As there are no refreshment facilities please bring your own tea, coffee etc.
For more information please call Edwina Cole on 01489 583249 or use the links below to book your place.
