Hillforts of Gwent - In Search of the Iron Age
From a 2001 dissertation by Caroline Martin
St. Julians Wood Camp
By Caroline Martin
First published 2001
Location of St Julians Wood Camp
St Julians Wood Camp as seen on OS 1902
Image reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland
St. Julians Wood Camp (ST 34 88) is in the Parish of Christchurch. The camp is situated on a ridge overlooking the Usk Valley to the north. The site lies within a parkland of grass and scattered trees next to the cemetery at Christchurch. All that remains of this site are faint traces of banks and ditches on a northwest facing slope. There is a scarp of 0.6m - 2m with fault traces of an external ditch at the southern end. The only other remains are faint traces of a low bank running north west to south east at right angles to the scarp, approximately 0.2m high (Whittle 1990, 5). The map shows that the original position of this 21 site was within the cemetery. Outside the western extremity of the cemetery, there is a shallow bank and ditch running parallel to the boundary fence (Taylor 1999, 5).