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The Castles, Dowdeswell
Gloucestershire, England ยท Atlas EN0749
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0749 (749)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dowdeswell
- National Grid reference
- SO998191
- Latitude
- 51.87043
- Longitude
- -2.00345
- Altitude
- 215 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
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1660); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1884); Other (2011); Other (2007-2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1018170
- HER
- Gloucestershire 176
- National record
- record SO 91 NE 6; monument 117383
- Wikidata
- Q31116113
Sources
References
- Anon 1660, Dowdswell Court Book, Jan 1660, 1.
- 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.