Location
- Atlas number
- EN0756 (756)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Willersey
- Also recorded in
- Worcestershire
- National Grid reference
- SP117383
- Latitude
- 52.04294
- Longitude
- -1.83084
- Altitude
- 260 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 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 28 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- parkland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, human bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885); Other (1978); Excavation (1987); Other (1990); Geophysical Survey (1997); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Other (2002-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003815; 1003327
- HER
- Gloucestershire 333
- National record
- record SP 13 NW 9; monument 330616
- Wikidata
- Q31116243
Sources
References
- Barker P.P. 1997. GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY AT BROADWAY GOLF CLUB, BROADWAY, WORCESTERSHIRE, STRATASCAN 1210.
- RCHME 1976. Ancient and historical monuments in the County of Gloucestershire, Vol. I: Iron Age and Romano- British monuments in Gloucestershire Cotswolds, London: HMSO, 107.
- Rudder, S. 1779. A new history of Gloucestershire, Cirencester: Author, 823.
- Stoertz, C. 2012. The North Cotswolds: a highlight report for the National Mapping Programme, Report No 17-2012, Centre for Archaeology.