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Kimsbury Camp
Gloucestershire, England · Atlas EN0764
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0764 (764)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Painswick
- National Grid reference
- SO870121
- Latitude
- 51.80734
- Longitude
- -2.18997
- Altitude
- 283 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 1.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- Other (1806); Other (1970); Other (1995); Other (2001); Excavation (2005); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1883-1884); Other (2003-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004865
- HER
- Gloucestershire 442
- National record
- record SO 81 SE 12; monument 115542
- Wikidata
- Q31116298
Sources
References
- Camden, W., enlarged by Richard Gough 1806. Britannia: or , a chronological description of the flourishing kingdoms of Endland, Scotland and Island and the islands adjacent; from the earliest antiquity, 398.
- RCHME 1976. Ancient and historical monuments in the County of Gloucestershire, Vol. I: Iron Age and Romano- British monuments in Gloucestershire Cotswolds, London: HMSO, 91b.
- Rudder, S. 1779. A new history of Gloucestershire, Cirencester: Author, 592.