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Clifton Down Camp
City of Bristol, England ยท Atlas EN4035
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4035 (4035)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- City of Bristol
- Historic county
- Somerset
- National Grid reference
- ST56567332
- Latitude
- 51.45713
- Longitude
- -2.62664
- Altitude
- 102 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, parkland, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1480); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1883); Other (1900); Excavation (1808-1810)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005427
- HER
- City of Bristol 1780M
- National record
- record ST 57 SE 21; monument 198349
- Wikidata
- Q31109011
Sources
References
- Burrow, I. 1981. Hillfort and hill-top settlement in Somerset in the first to eighth centuries AD, British Archaeological Report (BAR) British Series 1, 76, 235-6.
- Corry, J. 1816. The history of Bristol, civil and ecclesiastical; including biographical notices of eminent and distinguished natives, Bristol: W. Shepherd, 33, 39.
- Morgan, C. Lloyd 1900. Notes on Clifton, Burwalls and Stokeleigh Camps, Clifton Ant Clb, 5, 8-24 Plan.
- Scarth, H.M. 1873. The camps on the River Avon at Clifton, with remarks on the structure of ancient ramparts, Archaeol, 44, 428-34.