Home / England / Wiltshire / Odstock Copse
Odstock Copse
Wiltshire, England ยท Atlas EN0401
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0401 (401)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wiltshire
- Historic county
- Wiltshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Odstock
- National Grid reference
- SU14462517
- Latitude
- 51.02569
- Longitude
- -1.79517
- Altitude
- 110 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 3, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871-1881); Earthwork Survey (1983-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004775
- HER
- Wiltshire and Swindon MWI9893
- National record
- record SU 12 NW 3; monument 217694
- Wikidata
- Q31116783
Sources
References
- Pugh, R.B. and Crittall, E. eds 1957. A history of Wiltshire, 1.1, The Victoria history of the counties of England, Oxford: OUP 268.
- Sumner H. 1913. Ancient Earthworks of Cranborne Chase, 33.