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Icomb Camp
Gloucestershire, England ยท Atlas EN0758
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0758 (758)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Icomb
- National Grid reference
- SP205230
- Latitude
- 51.90512
- Longitude
- -1.70344
- Altitude
- 230 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant, Cropmark, and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1777); 1st Identified Written Reference (1803); Other (1816); Other (1975); Other (1997); Other (1767-1800)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003342
- HER
- Gloucestershire 358
- National record
- record SP 22 SW 1; monument 332646
- Wikidata
- Q31116273
Sources
References
- Burrow, E.J. 1919.The ancient entrenchments and camps of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 96.
- RCHME 1976. Ancient and historical monuments in the County of Gloucestershire, Vol. I: Iron Age and Romano- British monuments in Gloucestershire Cotswolds, London: HMSO, 66-7.
- Saville, A. 1978. Excavations at Icomb Hill, Trans Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol Soc, 96, 27-31.
- Witts, G.B. 1883. Archaeological handbook of the County of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham: Norman Brothers, 27-8.