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Shenberrow Hill
Gloucestershire, England · Atlas EN0769
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0769 (769)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stanton
- National Grid reference
- SP080334
- Latitude
- 51.99940
- Longitude
- -1.88417
- Altitude
- 290 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1884); Excavation (1935); Other (2009); Other (2002-2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gloucestershire 2307
- National record
- record SP 03 SE 5; monument 328140
- Wikidata
- Q31116140
Sources
References
- Fell, C.I. 1961. Shenberrow Hill Camp, Stanton, Gloucestershire, Trans Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol Soc, 80, 16-41.
- Harrison, C. 2010. Shenberrow Farm, Stanton, Gloucestershire. Archaeological Watching Brief, Report, Wessex Archaeology.
- RCHME 1976. Ancient and historical monuments in the County of Gloucestershire, Vol. I: Iron Age and Romano- British monuments in Gloucestershire Cotswolds, London: HMSO, 109-10.
- Saville, A. ed 1984. Archaeology in Gloucestershire from earliest hunters to the industrial age: essays dedicated to Helen O'Neil and the late Elsie Clifford, 152.
- Small, F. et al 200. The Forest of Dean Mapping Project, Gloucestershire: a report for the National Mapping Programme, Report No 28-2006, Centre for Archaeology.
- Stoertz, C. 2012. The North Cotswolds: a highlight report for the National Mapping Programme, Report No 17-2012.Centre for Archaeology.
- Stenton, M. 2009. Shenberrow, Gloucestershire: archaeological desk-based assessment, Sheffield: University of Sheffield ARCUS.