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Bury Hill, Winterbourne
South Gloucestershire, England · Atlas EN3961
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3961 (3961)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Winterbourne
- National Grid reference
- ST652791
- Latitude
- 51.50970
- Longitude
- -2.50286
- Altitude
- 61 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Outworks (North west); Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Other
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1768); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1777); Excavation (1926); Geophysical Survey (2015); LiDAR Survey (2015)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1007023
- HER
- South Gloucestershire 1347
- National record
- record ST 67 NE 1; monument 201258
- Wikidata
- Q31061528
Sources
References
- Adams, S. 2015. Bury Hill. An Iron Age hillfort in the Lower Severn Vale. University of Oxford MSc dissertation, unpublished.
- Atkyns, Sir R. 1768. The Ancient and Present State of Glocestershire, 2nd ed, London: T. Spilsbury for W. Herbert.
- Burrow, E. 1919. The ancient entrenchments and camps of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, Ed. J. Burrow and Co, 50.
- Davies,J.A. and Phillips,C.W. 1927. Percy Sladen Memorial Fund Excavations at Bury Hill Camp, Winterbourne Down, Gloucestershire, Proc Univ Bristol Speleol Soc, 3(1), 8-24.
- Lloyd Baker, T.J.1821. An Account of a Chain of Ancient Fortresses, extending through the South Western part of Gloucestershire, Archaeologia, 19, 164-5.
- Witts, G.B. 1883. Archaeological handbook of the County of Gloucester, Cheltenham: G. Norman, 9-10.