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The Ditches, North Cerney
Gloucestershire, England · Atlas EN0742
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0742 (742)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- North Cerney
- National Grid reference
- SO995093
- Latitude
- 51.78304
- Longitude
- -2.00736
- Altitude
- 220 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant, Cropmark, and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west); Outworks (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southwest and level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, roundhouses, and roads or tracks
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and animal bones
- Investigations
- Geophysical Survey (1988); Geophysical Survey (2006); Excavation (1982-1985); Other (1992-1996); Other (2007-2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003448
- HER
- Gloucestershire 4684
- National record
- record SO 90 NE 25; monument 117102
- Wikidata
- Q31116065
Sources
References
- Moore, T. 2006. Gradiometry at 'Ditches', North Cerney, Gloucestershire, Unpublished Interim Report for English Heritage.
- Trow, S.D. 1988. Excavations at Ditches Hillfort, North Cerney, Gloucestershire, Trans Bristol Glos Archaeol Soc, 106, 19-85.
- Trow, S.D. James, S. and Moore, T. 2009. Becoming Roman, being Gallic, staying British. Research and excavations at Ditches Hillfort and Villa 1984-2006, Oxford: Oxbow.