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Salmonsbury Camp
Gloucestershire, England · Atlas EN0757
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0757 (757)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bourton-on-the-Water
- National Grid reference
- SP174209
- Latitude
- 51.88635
- Longitude
- -1.74860
- Altitude
- 129 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort and marsh fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 23 ha
- Footprint
- 29 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- valley bottom and lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, human bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (779); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1840); Excavation (1931-1934); Excavation (1956-1999); Other (1987-2006); Geophysical Survey (1987-2011); Other (1997-2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017340
- HER
- Gloucestershire 342
- National record
- record SP 12 SE 2; monument 330369
- Wikidata
- Q31116268
Sources
References
- Barker, P. and Mercer, E. 2001. A GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY CARRIED OUT AT CEMETERY LANE, BOURTON-ON-THE-WATER, GLOuCESTERSHIRE, STRATASCAN 1532.
- Brown, I. 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales, Oxford: Windgather Press.
- Cunliffe, B. and Rowley, T. (eds) 1976. Oppida: the beginnings of urbanisation in Barbarian Europe, BAR Int Ser 11.
- Dunning, G.C. 1976. Salmonsbury, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, in ed D.W. Harding , Hillforts. Later prehistoric earthworks in Britain and Ireland, London: Academic Press, 75-118.
- Marshall A. 1995. MAGNETOMETER SURVEY OVER THE INTERIOR OF THE MULTIVALLATE ENCLOSURE at Salmonsbury, Bourton-on-the-Water, Glos., AML report.
- Rawes, B.1984. Observations at Salmonsbury Camp, 1983 [2 crouched burials, EIA pottery], Trans Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol Soc 102, 215-19.
- RCHME 1976. Ancient and historical monuments in the County of Gloucestershire, Vol. I: Iron Age and Romano- British monuments in Gloucestershire Cotswolds, London: HMSO, 17-19.