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Abbey Camp, Alveston
South Gloucestershire, England ยท Atlas EN3954
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3954 (3954)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Thornbury
- National Grid reference
- ST650887
- Latitude
- 51.59649
- Longitude
- -2.50640
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1812); Other (1830); Other (1962); Other (1982); LiDAR Survey (2006); Other (2013-2016)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1010803
- HER
- South Gloucestershire 1487
- National record
- record ST 68 NE 2; monument 201445
- Wikidata
- Q31061479
Sources
References
- Solley, T. W. J. 1983. Earthworks at Abbey (Alveston) and Elberton (Aust), Trans Bristol and Gloucs Arch Soc, 101, 174-180.
- Witts, G.B. 1883. Archaeological handbook of the County of Gloucester, Cheltenham: G. Norman, 1.