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Beckbury Camp
Gloucestershire, England · Atlas EN0744
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0744 (744)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Temple Guiting
- National Grid reference
- SP064299
- Latitude
- 51.96750
- Longitude
- -1.90827
- Altitude
- 269 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and other burning
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west); Hollow Way (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1883); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1884); Other (1970); Geophysical Survey (2002); Other (2002); Other (2002-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003319
- HER
- Gloucestershire 45
- National record
- record SP 02 NE 1; monument 327715
- Wikidata
- Q31116079
Sources
References
- Burrow, E.J. 1919: The ancient entrenchments and camps of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham: Author, 42-3.
- Derham, K. 2002. Archaeological recording at Beckbury Camp, Temple Guiting, Unpublished report Gloucestershire Archaeological Service, Gloucestershire County Council.
- Marshall, A. 2002. Report of geophysical survey undertaken at Beckbury Camp, Temple Guiting. Unpublished report, Author.
- RCHME 1976. Ancient and historical monuments in the County of Gloucestershire, Vol. I: Iron Age and Romano- British monuments in Gloucestershire Cotswolds, London: HMSO, 116b.
- Russel, N. 2002. The Gloucestershire Monument Management Scheme 2001-02. Site report Beckbury Camp. Unpublished report Gloucestershire Archaeological Service, Gloucestershire County Council.
- Stoertz C. 2012. The North Cotswolds: a highlight report for the National Mapping Programme, Report No 17-2012.Centre for Archaeology.
- Witts, G.B. 1883. Archaeological handbook of the County of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham: Norman Brothers, 4-5.