Kemerton Camp & Parsons Folly - Added to Iconic Landscapes and Ancient Sites in West Midlands

I have just added this to the map of places to fly your drone at Drone Scene:

Land owner permission not required.

Parking was lightyears away at Elmley Castle, a small village to the North East here 52.06607243, -2.03880082. TOAL was on the hill.

Kemerton Camp is a hillfort on the top of Bredon Hill in Worcestershire. With a steep escarpment dropping away on the north side of the Hill, it has two sets of ramparts and ditches to the south. The inner ramparts possibly date to 300BC.

Excavations at Kemerton Camp in the 1930s uncovered, near the entrance to the inner ramparts of the fort, the burial place of some 50 slaughtered men, along with a great number of weapons. Are they evidence of a last stand against the Roman invasion, or of some internecine strife between warring tribes ?

Adjacent to Kemerton Camp is a small stone tower called Parsons Folly (or the Banbury Stone Tower) which was built in the mid-18th century for John Parsons, squire of Kemerton Court and intended as a summer house.

The originator declared that this location was not inside a Flight Restriction Zone at the time of being flown on 30/04/2022. It remains the responsibility of any pilot to check for any changes before flying at the same location.

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