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Brackenbury Camp
Gloucestershire, England ยท Atlas EN0754
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0754 (754)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- North Nibley
- National Grid reference
- ST747948
- Latitude
- 51.65137
- Longitude
- -2.36711
- Altitude
- 200 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 3.2 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 2 ha, 3.2 ha
- Footprint
- 3.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, berm, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hollow Way (South east); Over-lapping (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1630); Other (1830); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1882); Geophysical Survey (1990); Excavation (2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002133
- HER
- Gloucestershire 318
- National record
- record ST 79 SW 7; monument 205380
- Wikidata
- Q31116211
Sources
References
- Lindley, E.S. 1957. Brackenbury Ditches, Trans Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol Soc, 76, 150-56.
- RCHME 1976. Ancient and historical monuments in the County of Gloucestershire, Vol. I: Iron Age and Romano- British monuments in Gloucestershire Cotswolds, London: HMSO, 86-7.
- Saville, A. 1984. Archaeology in Gloucestershire, Cheltenham: Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museums, 123.
- Verey, D. 1970. Gloucestershire I: the Cotswolds, The Buildings of England, London: Penguin Books, 345.