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Stow Camp
Gloucestershire, England · Atlas EN0751
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0751 (751)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stow-on-the-Wold
- National Grid reference
- SP195259
- Latitude
- 51.93123
- Longitude
- -1.71781
- Altitude
- 220 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC, 800–400 BC, and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Excavation (1972); Excavation (1994); Other (2001)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017341
- HER
- Gloucestershire 239
- National record
- record SP 12 NE 32; monument 330170
- Wikidata
- Q31116177
Sources
References
- Leech, R. 1981. Historic towns in Gloucestershire: archaeology and planning. Committee for Rescue Archaeology in Avon, Gloucestershire and Somerset, Surveys No 1 (1975) - No 6 (1983) No 3, 79.
- Morton R. 2001. Well Lane Surgery Extension, Stow Camp, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire: archaeological watching brief, Report No 01013, Cotswold Archaeological Trust.
- Parry, C. and Edmondson, G. 1995. Note, Trans Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol Soc 113, 203.
- RCHME 1976. Ancient and historical monuments in the County of Gloucestershire, Vol. I: Iron Age and Romano- British monuments in Gloucestershire Cotswolds, London: HMSO, 111b.