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Coombe Hill
City of Bristol, England ยท Atlas EN4064
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4064 (4064)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- City of Bristol
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- National Grid reference
- ST 560 781
- Latitude
- 51.50069
- Longitude
- -2.63445
- Altitude
- 68.5 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1779); Earthwork Survey (1957); LiDAR Survey (2014)
Identifiers
- HER
- City of Bristol 1763M
- National record
- record ST 5 7 NE 5; monument 198172
- Wikidata
- Q31108989
Sources
References
- Adams, S.M. 2015. Bury Hill. An Iron Age hillfort in the lower Severn Vale. Unpublished MSc dissertation, University of Oxford.
- Burrow, I. 1981. Hillfort and hill-top settlement in Somerset in the first to eighth centuries AD, British Archaeological Report (BAR) British Series 1, 232-33.
- Haldane, J.W. 1965-68. Coombe Hill Proc Univ Bristol Speleol Soc, 11, 249-251.
- Rudder, S. 1779. A new history of Gloucestershire. Comprising the topography, antiquities, curiosities, ... of that county; the foundation-charters and endowments of abbies, ... descriptions of the principal seats; ... Also the ecclesiastical, civil, and military history of the city of Gloucester. Samuel Rudder, Cirencester.