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Ranbury Ring
Gloucestershire, England ยท Atlas EN0743
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0743 (743)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ampney St. Peter
- National Grid reference
- SP090009
- Latitude
- 51.70672
- Longitude
- -1.87117
- Altitude
- 110 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 4.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1824); Other (1884); Other (2007); Other (2011); Other (1992-1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003322
- HER
- Gloucestershire 8
- National record
- record SP 00 SE 14; monument 32739
- Wikidata
- Q31116073
Sources
References
- Burrow, E.J. 1919: The ancient entrenchments and camps of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham: Author, 26.
- Hood, A. 2007. Land at Ranbury Ring, Ampney St. Peter. Archaeological Evaluation.
- Unpublished report Foundations Archaeology.
- Lewis, D. 2011. Ranbury Farm, Ampney St. Peter management plan for Ranbury Ring, Unpublished report EDP.
- RCHME 1976. Ancient and historical monuments in the County of Gloucestershire, Vol. I: Iron Age and Romano- British monuments in Gloucestershire Cotswolds, London: HMSO, 3-4.
- Saville, A. ed 1984. Archaeology in Gloucestershire from earliest hunters to the industrial age: essays dedicated to Helen O'Neil and the late Elsie Clifford, 143, 165.
- Witts, G.B. 1883. Archaeological handbook of the County of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham: Norman Brothers.