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Oldbury Court

City of Bristol, England ยท Atlas EN4066

Location

Atlas number
EN4066 (4066)
Country
England
Current county or unitary authority
City of Bristol
Historic county
Gloucestershire
National Grid reference
ST63607670
Latitude
51.48825
Longitude
-2.52551
Altitude
38 m

Form and condition

Type
hillslope fort
Condition
Likely destroyed
Complete rampart circuit
No
Possible original entrances
0
Breaks through the ramparts
0

Landscape

Topographic position
hillslope
Aspect
southeast
Land use
woodland and parkland

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
1st Identified Written Reference (1779); LiDAR Survey (2014)

Identifiers

HER
City of Bristol 1803M
National record
record ST 6 7 NW 6; monument 201302
Wikidata
Q31108996

Sources

References

  1. Adams, S.M. 2015. Bury Hill. An Iron Age hillfort in the lower Severn Vale. Unpublished MSc dissertation, University of Oxford.
  2. 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.