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Gadbury Bank
Worcestershire, England ยท Atlas EN0376
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0376 (376)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Worcestershire
- Historic county
- Worcestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Eldersfield
- National Grid reference
- SO792317
- Latitude
- 51.98251
- Longitude
- -2.30373
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (2000-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005329
- HER
- Worcestershire MWR1496 (second identifier WSM03717)
- National record
- record SO 73 SE 1; monument 113577
- Wikidata
- Q31120264
Sources
References
- Windle, B.C.A. and Willis-Bund, J.W. (eds) 1901. Victoria History of the Counties of England: a history of the County of Worcestershire, 1. 188, London: St Catherine Press.
- Bowden, M. 2005. The Malvern Hills: an ancient landscape: an archaeological landscape, London: English Heritage.