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Uley Bury Camp

Gloucestershire, England · Atlas EN0752

Uley Bury Camp is a partial contour fort in Uley, Gloucestershire, England.

Other names on the record: Uleybury and Uley Bury.

It is recorded as extant, with a partial bivallate and partial multivallate rampart form, surface evidence of earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and berm, and an enclosed area of 16 hectares.

Banks or ramparts are the remains most likely to be visible.

The topographic record places it on a spur, at 215 m, and facing southeast.

Recorded land use includes pasture.

Dating evidence is recorded for 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50 (Artefactual and C14). Reliability is recorded as B - Medium.

A scheduled monument number is recorded (1004866).

Location

Atlas number
EN0752 (752)
Country
England
Current county or unitary authority
Gloucestershire
Historic county
Gloucestershire
Parish, community, or townland
Uley
National Grid reference
ST785989
Latitude
51.68839
Longitude
-2.31244
Altitude
215 m

Form and condition

Type
partial contour fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
partial bivallate and partial multivallate
Complete rampart circuit
Yes
Number of ramparts
3
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 2, SE 2, SW 3, NW 2
Number of ditches
2
Possible original entrances
3
Breaks through the ramparts
4
Enclosed area
16 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and berm
Also recorded
ditches
Entrance forms
In-turned (North); Hollow Way (North); Hollow Way (East); Hollow Way (South)

Landscape

Topographic position
spur
Aspect
southeast and level
Land use
pasture

Dating

Dating
800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
Dating evidence
Artefactual and C14
Dating reliability
B - Medium

Interior and investigation

Interior excavation
pits and roads or tracks
Finds
pottery, metal, human bones, and lithics
Investigations
1st Identified Map Depiction (1813); Excavation (1976); Excavation (1993); Other (2004); Earthwork Survey (1983-2005)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
1004866
HER
Gloucestershire 261
National record
record ST 79 NE 15; monument 205226
Wikidata
Q31116189

Sources

References

  1. Darvill, T. 2011. Prehistoric Gloucestershire. Forests and vales and high blue hills, 2nd Edition, Stroud: Amberley Publishing.
  2. Evans D. 2004. Uley Bury, Gloucestershire. Programme of Archaeological Recording, Unpublished report Cotswold Archaeology.
  3. Parry C. 1993. Uley Bury Camp, Gloucestershire: Note on the replacement of a stile at ST 7830098927, June 1993. Unpublished report Gloucestershire County Council, Archaeology Section.
  4. RCHME 1976. Ancient and historical monuments in the County of Gloucestershire, Vol. I: Iron Age and Romano- British monuments in Gloucestershire Cotswolds, London: HMSO, 121b.
  5. Saville, A. and Ellison, A. 1983. Uley Bury and Norbury hillforts: rescue excavations at two Gloucestershire Iron Age sites. Bristol: Western Archaeological Trust.
  6. Saville, A and Ellison, A. 1983. Excavations at Uley Bury hillfort, Gloucestershire, 1976. Bristol: Western Archaeological Trust excavation monograph 5.