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Bloody Acre
South Gloucestershire, England ยท Atlas EN3957
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3957 (3957)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cromhall
- National Grid reference
- ST68959155
- Latitude
- 51.62186
- Longitude
- -2.44993
- Altitude
- 69 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 5.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Other (1880); Other (1970); Other (2013-2016)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002483
- HER
- South Gloucestershire 1582
- National record
- record ST 69 SE 4; monument 201653
- Wikidata
- Q31061501
Sources
References
- Witts, G.B. 1883. Archaeological handbook of the County of Gloucester, Cheltenham: G. Norman, 7-8.