Bigbury Camp is the only confirmed Iron Age hill fort in east Kent. [3] It is managed by Kent Wildlife Trust. [4] Bigbury Camp was occupied from about 350 BC and may have been stormed by Roman soldiers of the Legio VII Claudia under the command of Julius Caesar.

Bigbury Camp is an Iron Age hillfort in Howfield Wood, a short hop from the centre of Canterbury. The site was occupied from about 350BC and may have been stormed in one of the first engagements between the local peoples and the legions of Julius Caesar in 55BC.

Jul 10, 2010 · Kent Wildlife Trust has launched a major appeal to its members and supporters to raise vital additional funding to help it restore Bigbury Hill Fort - an area of ancient woodland and a former Iron Age settlement and Roman encampment near Chartham Hatch, Canterbury.

Bigbury (a.k.a. Bigberry) Late Pre-Roman Iron Age or Belgic hill fort (oppidum) 1½ miles from Canterbury. This is said to be the place where Cassivellaunus of the Cassivellauni had a …

Bigbury Camp (formerly Bigberry Camp) is a univallate hill fort in the parish of Harbledown and Rough Common in Kent in England. [1] The fort is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, with a list entry identification number of 1005169. [2] Bigbury Camp is …

A Hill Fort that is generally recognized as the site of Caesar’s first engagement with the Britons in 54 BC. It was stormed by the Legio VII Claudia under the command of Julius Caesar who described how the entrances to the fort were barricaded with felled trees.

Bigbury Camp is a univallate hill fort in the parish of Harbledown and Rough Common in Kent in England. The fort is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, with a list entry identification number of …

Small finds in the primary site of the ditch included several potsherds of East Kent Early Iron Age, "A" gritted ware, and an ovoid slingbolt of burnt clay precisely matched by one from a...

Bigbury Camp is an iron age hillfort not far from Canterbury city centre and is managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust who plan to restore more natural habitats as they would have been when the site was occupied.

Bigbury Camp (formerly Bigberry Camp) is a univallate hill fort in the parish of Harbledown and Rough Common in Kent in England. The fort is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, with a list entry identification number of 1005169.