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The Knolls Camp
Gloucestershire, England · Atlas EN0759
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0759 (759)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Oxenton
- National Grid reference
- SO973313
- Latitude
- 51.98012
- Longitude
- -2.04074
- Altitude
- 223 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 2.8 ha
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and animal bones
- Investigations
- Excavation (1932); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1884-1885); Other (1992-1996); Other (2002-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004873
- HER
- Gloucestershire 426
- National record
- record SO 93 Se 5; monument 11792
- Wikidata
- Q31116276
Sources
References
- Saville, A. 1984. Archaeology in Gloucestershire, Cheltenham: Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museums, 157, 166.
- Stoertz, C. 2012. The North Cotswolds: a highlight report for the National Mapping Programme, Report No 17, Centre for Archaeology.
- Witts, G.B. 1883. Archaeological handbook of the County of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham: Norman Brothers, 40, 104.