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Welshbury
Gloucestershire, England ยท Atlas EN0768
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0768 (768)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Blaisdon
- National Grid reference
- SO677155
- Latitude
- 51.83758
- Longitude
- -2.46950
- Altitude
- 167 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, rubble, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881); Other (1993); Earthwork Survey (1995); Other (1996); Geophysical Survey (2005); Other (2002-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1018158
- HER
- Gloucestershire 5161
- National record
- record SO 61 NE 7; monument 111723
- Wikidata
- Q31116303
Sources
References
- Dean R. 2005. Gradiometer Survey at Welshbury Hillfort, Gloucestershire, Unpublished report Substrata Ltd.
- Erskine, J.G.P. 1994, Note, Trans Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol Soc, 112, 196.
- Stoertz C. 2012. The North Cotswolds: a highlight report for the National Mapping Programme, Report No 17-2012, Centre for Archaeology.