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Freezing Hill
South Gloucestershire, England ยท Atlas EN4166
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4166 (4166)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cold Ashton
- National Grid reference
- ST72007148
- Latitude
- 51.44156
- Longitude
- -2.40427
- Altitude
- 205 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hollow Way (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1777); Other (1882); Other (1971); Other (2015); LiDAR Survey (2015); 1st Identified Written Reference (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004668
- HER
- South Gloucestershire 2001
- National record
- record ST 77 SW 8; monument 204958
- Wikidata
- Q31061547
Sources
References
- Darvill, T. 2011. Prehistoric Gloucestershire. Forests and vales and high blue hills, 2nd Edition, Stroud: Amberley Publishing.
- Grundy, G.B. 1935. Saxon Charters of Gloucestershire, 9.
- Playne, G.F. 1877. On the ancient camps of Gloucestershire, Cotteswold Field Club, 6. 220.
- RCHME 1976. Ancient and historical monuments in the County of Gloucestershire, Vol I: Iron Age and Romano-British monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds, London: HMSO.
- Witts, G.B. 1883. Archaeological handbook of the County of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham: Norman Brothers, 22.