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Windrush Camp
Gloucestershire, England ยท Atlas EN0755
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0755 (755)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Windrush
- National Grid reference
- SP181123
- Latitude
- 51.80900
- Longitude
- -1.73888
- Altitude
- 180 m
Form and condition
- Type
- 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
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metalworking
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1590); Geophysical Survey (1988); Geophysical Survey (1989); Geophysical Survey (1995); Geophysical Survey (2002); Other (1601-1700); Other (1801-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003323
- HER
- Gloucestershire 332
- National record
- record SP 11 SE 3; monument 330012
- Wikidata
- Q31116214
Sources
References
- Aubrey, J. 17th century. Monumenta Britannica, John Aubrey (1626-97), parts one and two, edited by John Fowles, annotated by Rodney Legg 1980.
- Camden, W., enlarged by Richard Gough 1806. Britannia: or , a chronological description of the flourishing kingdoms of England, Scotland and Island and the islands adjacent; from the earliest antiquity.
- Marshall, A. 1996 Trans Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol Soc., 114; 170-185.
- Marshall, A J. 2002. SUMMARY OF GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY UNDERTAKEN AT WINDRUSH HILLFORT, WINDRUSH, GLOS. Unpublished.
- RCHME 1976. Ancient and historical monuments in the County of Gloucestershire, Vol. I: Iron Age and Romano- British monuments in Gloucestershire Cotswolds, London: HMSO, 130.
- Verey, D. 1970. Gloucestershire I: the Cotswolds, The Buildings of England, London: Penguin Books, 480.