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Horton Camp
South Gloucestershire, England ยท Atlas EN3950
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3950 (3950)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Horton
- National Grid reference
- ST76458438
- Latitude
- 51.55776
- Longitude
- -2.34111
- Altitude
- 207 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2.78 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and other burning
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1821); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1882); Other (1984); Geophysical Survey (1998); LiDAR Survey (2015); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Other (1962-1977)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002485
- HER
- South Gloucestershire 2112
- National record
- record ST 78 SE 1; monument 205114
- Wikidata
- Q31061459
Sources
References
- Anon 1999. Note, The National Trust annual archaeological review, 7/1999.
- Lloyd Baker, T.J.1821. An Account of a Chain of Ancient Fortresses, extending through the South Western part of Gloucestershire, Archaeologia, 19, 161-75.
- RCHME 1976. Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds, London: HMSO, 65-66.
- Rudder, S. 1779. A new history of Gloucestershire, Cirencester: Samuel Rudder, 503.
- Witts, G.B. 1883. Archaeological handbook of the County of Gloucester, Cheltenham: G. Norman, 27.