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Garmsley Camp
Worcestershire, England ยท Atlas EN0019
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0019 (19)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Worcestershire
- Historic county
- Herefordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stoke Bliss
- National Grid reference
- SO 620618
- Latitude
- 52.25334
- Longitude
- -2.55749
- Altitude
- 196 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 3.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (West); Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002942
- HER
- Worcestershire WSM05313 (second identifier WSM05313)
- National record
- record SO 66 SW5; monument 112664
- Wikidata
- Q31120133
Sources
References
- Bowen, A.R. 1952. The hill-forts of Worcestershire and its borders, Trans Worcs Archaeol Soc, 29, 33-37.
- Montgomerie, D.H. 1924. Ancient earthworks, Victoria County History, Worcestershire.
- Pevsner, N. 1968. The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, 265.
- Phillips, W. 1893. Garmsley Camp (near Tenbury), Trans Woolhope Natur Fld Club, 1893, 142-43.