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Soudley Camp
Gloucestershire, England ยท Atlas EN4164
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4164 (4164)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ruspidge
- National Grid reference
- SO66161058
- Latitude
- 51.79280
- Longitude
- -2.49208
- Altitude
- 80 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Footprint
- 3.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, and lithics
- Investigations
- Other (1970); Other (1999); Other (2000); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878-1881); Other (2002-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005564
- HER
- Gloucestershire 444
- National record
- record SO 61 SE 4; monument 111775
- Wikidata
- Q31116365
Sources
References
- King, D.J.C. 1983. Castellarium anglicanum : an index and bibliography of the castles in England, Wales and the islands.
- Playne, G.F. 1877. On the ancient camps of Gloucestershire, Cotteswold Field Club, 6. 235.
- Witts, G.B. 1883. Archaeological handbook of the County of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham: Norman Brothers, 46-7.