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The Castle, Tytherington
South Gloucestershire, England ยท Atlas EN3973
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3973 (3973)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tytherington
- National Grid reference
- ST664883
- Latitude
- 51.59249
- Longitude
- -2.48645
- Altitude
- 76 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881); Other (1962); Other (2013-2016)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 11007022
- HER
- South Gloucestershire 1499
- National record
- record ST 68 NE 3; monument 201448
- Wikidata
- Q31061539
Sources
References
- Burrow, E. 1919. The ancient entrenchments and camps of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, Ed. J. Burrow and Co, 142.
- Witts, G.B. 1883. Archaeological handbook of the County of Gloucester, Cheltenham: G. Norman, 121.