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Stokeleigh Camp
North Somerset, England · Atlas EN3983
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3983 (3983)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Somerset
- Historic county
- Somerset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Long Ashton
- National Grid reference
- ST55957328
- Latitude
- 51.45672
- Longitude
- -2.63542
- Altitude
- 104 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1789); Other (1802); Other (1821); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Other (1962-1965); Excavation (1966-1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008113
- HER
- North Somerset MNS859
- National record
- record ST 57 SE 35; monument 198375
- Wikidata
- Q31070913
Sources
References
- Barrett, W. 1789. History and antiquities of the City of Bristol.
- Burrow, E. 1924. Ancient earthworks and camps of Somerset, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow, 46-7.
- Burrow, I. 1981. Hillfort and hill-top settlement in Somerset in the first to eighth centuries AD, British Archaeological Report (BAR) British Series 1, 221-2.
- Haldane, J.W. 1966. Stokeleigh Camp, Somerset, Proc Univ Bristol Spelaeol Soc, 11(1)31-8.
- Haldane, J.W. 1975. The excavations at Stokeleigh Camp, Avon, Proc Univ Bristol Spelaeol Soc, 14(1), 29-63.
- Morgan, C. Lloyd 1900. Notes on Clifton, Burwalls and Stokeleigh Camps, Clifton Ant Clb, 5, 8-24.
- Manby, G.W. 1802. Fugitive sketches of the history and natural beauties of Clifton, Hotwells and vicinity, Bristol: Norton.
- Seyer, S. 1821. Memoirs, historical and topographical, of Bristol and its neighbourhood, 65.