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Elberton Camp
South Gloucestershire, England ยท Atlas EN3955
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3955 (3955)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Aust
- National Grid reference
- ST60808830
- Latitude
- 51.59299
- Longitude
- -2.56730
- Altitude
- 61 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east); Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (North west); Outworks (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881); Other (1962); LiDAR Survey (2006); Other (2013-2016)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002478
- HER
- South Gloucestershire 1455
- National record
- record ST 68 NW 1; monument 201491
- Wikidata
- Q31061490
Sources
References
- Burrow, E. 1919. The ancient entrenchments and camps of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, Ed. J. Burrow and Co, 82.
- Solley, T. W. J. 1983. Earthworks at Abbey (Alveston) and Elberton (Aust), Trans Bristol and Gloucs Arch Soc, 101, 179-80.
- Witts, G.B. 1883. Archaeological handbook of the County of Gloucester, Cheltenham: G. Norman, 20.