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Drakestone Camp
Gloucestershire, England ยท Atlas EN0765
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0765 (765)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stinchcombe
- National Grid reference
- ST737980
- Latitude
- 51.68010
- Longitude
- -2.38181
- Altitude
- 219 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Investigations
- Excavation (2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gloucestershire 445
- National record
- record ST 79 NW 2; monument 205258
- Wikidata
- Q31116104
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, 111a.
- Morris, T. 2005. An archaeological desk-based assessment, evaluation and survey of Drakestone Point, Stinchcomnbe Hill, Gloucestershire. Gloucestershire County Council Archaeology Service.