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Crickley Hill
Gloucestershire, England · Atlas EN0748
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0748 (748)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Badgeworth
- National Grid reference
- SO927161
- Latitude
- 51.84341
- Longitude
- -2.10738
- Altitude
- 267 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 3.85 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall, timber-laced wall, berm, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hornwork (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes, roundhouses, and rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery and metalworking
- Investigations
- Other (1881); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1884); Excavation (1952); Other (1970); Other (1993); Excavation (1969-1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003586
- HER
- Gloucestershire 170
- National record
- record SO 91 NW 44; monument 982133
- Wikidata
- Q31116090
Sources
References
- Clifford, E.M. 1964. An enclosure on Crickley Hill, Gloucestershire, Trans Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol Soc, 83, 40-8.
- Dixon, P. 1976. Crickley Hill, 1969-1972, in ed D.W. Harding , Hillforts. Later prehistoric earthworks in Britain and Ireland, London: Academic Press, 162-176.
- Dixon, P. 1994. Crickley Hill, volume 1 : the hillfort defences.
- Dixon, P. 1988. The Neolithic settlements on Crickley Hill, In eds Burgess, C., Topping, P., Mordant, C. and Maddison, M., Enclosures and defences in the Neolithic of western Europe, Bar British Series.
- Dixon, P. and Borne, P. 1977. Crickley Hill and Gloucestershire prehistory, Gloucester: Gloucestershire County Council.
- Guilbert, G. C. 1975. Planned hillfort interiors, Proc Prehist Soc, 41, 209, 211, 219.
- RCHME 1976. Ancient and historical monuments in the County of Gloucestershire, Vol. I: Iron Age and Romano- British monuments in Gloucestershire Cotswolds, London: HMSO, 5.
- Savage, R. 1988. Village, Fortress, Shrine: Crickley Hill, Gloucestershire, 3500BC - AD500, Gloucester: Crickley Hill Archaeol Trust.