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Lancaut
Gloucestershire, England ยท Atlas EN4148
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4148 (4148)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tidenham
- National Grid reference
- ST54269671
- Latitude
- 51.66725
- Longitude
- -2.66279
- Altitude
- 107 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 4.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1902); Other (1970); Geophysical Survey (2000); Excavation (2003); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); Other (2002-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004858
- HER
- Gloucestershire 23
- National record
- record ST 59 NW 3; monument 198723
- Wikidata
- Q31116334
Sources
References
- Barker P, Mercer E and Brookes C. 2000 GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY CARRIED OUT AT LANCAUT, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. STRATASCAN, unpublished report No. 1458
- Fox ,C. 1955 Offa's Dyke: a field survey of the western frontier - works of Mercia in the seventh and eighth centuries.
- Hoyle, J.P. and Vallender, J. 1995-1996. Offa's Dyke in Glos. Management Survey 1995-6, Gloucestershire County Council archive.