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Roel Camp
Gloucestershire, England ยท Atlas EN0745
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0745 (745)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Sudeley
- National Grid reference
- SP046243
- Latitude
- 51.91753
- Longitude
- -1.93367
- Altitude
- 282 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and spur
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1883); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1884); Geophysical Survey (1995-2001); Other (2002-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004838
- HER
- Gloucestershire 50
- National record
- record SP 02 SW 6; monument 327968
- Wikidata
- Q31116082
Sources
References
- Marshall, A. 1996 Trans Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol Soc., 114; 170-185.
- Marshall, A. 2002 SUMMARY OF GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY UNDERTAKEN AT ROEL HILLFORT, SUDELEY, GLOS. Unpublished.
- RCHME 1976. Ancient and historical monuments in the County of Gloucestershire, Vol. I: Iron Age and Romano- British monuments in Gloucestershire Cotswolds, London: HMSO, 112b.
- Small F. et al 2006. The Forest of Dean Mapping Project, Gloucestershire: a report for the National Mapping Programme, Report No 28-2006, Centre for Archaeology.
- Stoertz C. 2012. The North Cotswolds: a highlight report for the National Mapping Programme, Report No 17-2012.Centre for Archaeology.