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Ablington Camp
Gloucestershire, England ยท Atlas EN0746
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0746 (746)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bibury
- National Grid reference
- SP105073
- Latitude
- 51.76469
- Longitude
- -1.84927
- Altitude
- 135 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 3.64 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and spur
- Aspect
- north and level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1824); Other (1884); Other (2007-2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003356
- HER
- Gloucestershire 84
- National record
- record SP 10 NW 8; monument 329713
- Wikidata
- Q31116085
Sources
References
- RCHME 1976. Ancient and historical monuments in the County of Gloucestershire, Vol. I: Iron Age and Romano- British monuments in Gloucestershire Cotswolds, London: HMSO, 13-14.
- 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, 165.
- Verey, D. 1970. Gloucestershire I: the Cotswolds, The Buildings of England, London: Penguin Books, 112.