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Tedbury Camp
Somerset, England ยท Atlas EN0461
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0461 (461)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Great Elm
- National Grid reference
- ST744488
- Latitude
- 51.23775
- Longitude
- -2.36811
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 3, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 26 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); LiDAR Survey (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006163
- HER
- Somerset 23442
- National record
- record ST 74 NW 1; monument 202769
- Wikidata
- Q31115686
Sources
References
- Burrow, E.J. 1924. Ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 56-57.
- Page, W. (ed) 1911. The Victoria County History of the County of Somerset, 2, 104-5, London: St Catherine Press.