Location
- Atlas number
- EN0761 (761)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Southam
- National Grid reference
- SO984255
- Latitude
- 51.92797
- Longitude
- -2.02396
- Altitude
- 300 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1884); Other (1970); Other (1992-1996); Other (2002-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002132
- HER
- Gloucestershire 437
- National record
- record SO 92 NE 13; monument 117630
- Wikidata
- Q31116291
Sources
References
- RCHME 1976. Ancient and historical monuments in the County of Gloucestershire, Vol. I: Iron Age and Romano- British monuments in Gloucestershire Cotswolds, London: HMSO, 106b.
- Stoertz, C. 2012. The North Cotswolds: a highlight report for the National Mapping Programme, Report No 17-2012, Centre for Archaeology.
- Witts, G.B. 1883. Archaeological handbook of the County of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham: Norman Brothers, 12.