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Burhill Camp, Buckland
Gloucestershire, England · Atlas EN0770
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0770 (770)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Buckland
- National Grid reference
- SP084363
- Latitude
- 52.02502
- Longitude
- -1.87900
- Altitude
- 167 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 4.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Other (2002-2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Gloucestershire 2329
- National record
- record SP 03 NE 14; monument 328049
- Wikidata
- Q31116150
Sources
References
- Marshall, A. 1989. The hillfort at Burhill, Gloucestershire: evidence of occupation during the earliest phases of the Iron Age, Trans Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol Soc, 107, 197-202.
- RCHME 1976. Ancient and historical monuments in the County of Gloucestershire, Vol. I: Iron Age and Romano- British monuments in Gloucestershire Cotswolds, London: HMSO, 22-3.
- Stoertz, C. 2012. The North Cotswolds: a highlight report for the National Mapping Programme, Report No 17-2012.Centre for Archaeology.
- 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, 154, 158, 170.