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Oldbury Camp
South Gloucestershire, England · Atlas EN4307
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4307 (4307)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Historic county
- Gloucestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Oldbury-on-Severn
- National Grid reference
- ST 6110 9270
- Latitude
- 51.63171
- Longitude
- -2.56301
- Altitude
- 14 m
Form and condition
- Type
- marsh fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- 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
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Finds
- pottery and metalworking
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881); Excavation (1982); Other (1990); Other (2000); Other (2007); LiDAR Survey (2010); Excavation (1960-1969); Excavation (1978-1979); Other (2013-2016)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1013187
- HER
- South Gloucestershire SG2334
- National record
- record ST 69 SW 1; monument 634303
- Wikidata
- Q31061559
Sources
References
- Anon 1980. Note, Bristol Archaeological Research Group Review, 1, 36.
- Erskine, J .P. 1990. The Toot, Camp Road, Oldbury on Severn, Avon: Site Specific Archaeological Evaluation, Unpublished monograph Avon County Council.
- Erskine, J. G. P. 1990. Land adjoining Cherry Tree Cottage, Camp Road, Oldbury-on-Severn, Avon: observations and recording of foundation trenches, Unpublished monograph Avon County Council.
- Havard, T. 2000. Camp House, Oldbury-on-Severn, South Gloucestershire: archaeological watching brief, Report No 001232, Cotswold Arcaheological Trust.
- Iiles, R. 1983. Note, Bristol and Avon Archaeol, Bristol & Avon Archaeological Society, 2, 49.
- Rowe, E. 2007. Camp Cottage, Oldbury-on-Severn, South Gloucestershire. Archaeological Watching Brief, Cotswold Archaeology.
- Young, D. 2007. Wisteria House, Camp Road, Oldbury upon Severn: archaeological watching brief, Avon Archaeological Unit.