Home / England / South Gloucestershire / Old Sodbury Camp
Old Sodbury Camp
South Gloucestershire, England ยท Atlas EN3959
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3959 (3959)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Little Sodbury
- National Grid reference
- ST76108260
- Latitude
- 51.54174
- Longitude
- -2.34604
- Altitude
- 183 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 9.48 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- parkland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1882); Excavation (1977); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002486
- HER
- South Gloucestershire 2103
- National record
- record ST 78 SE 8; monument 205141
- Wikidata
- Q31061520
Sources
References
- RCHME 1976. Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds, London: HMSO, 103-4.