Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1976.
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'Windrush', in Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds, (London, 1976) pp. 130. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/ancient-glos/p130a [accessed 25 April 2024]
WINDRUSH
(12½ miles N.E. of Cirencester)
(1) Windrush Camp (SP 181123), univallate hill-fort, unexcavated, encloses just over 3 acres. Some ¾ mile S.W. of the village (map p. 100, s.v.. Sherborne), it is sited on ground which slopes gently down from the summit of a very slight and narrow N.-S. ridge, close to it on the E.
The bank, 25 ft. wide, rises 5½ ft. above the interior and 7½ ft. above the external ditch, generally levelled. The ditch, about 23 ft. wide, can be traced for only a short distance around the E. angle of the work. The entrance, a 25-ft. gap in the bank, is on the W.
Amorphous, broad and disjointed banks and mounds lie N. and E. of the Camp, in arable ground.
Bryant's Map of Gloucestershire (1824). Playne (1876), 210, No. 18. Witts (1883), 53, No. 108. Bagendon, 25, n. 4. VCH, Glos. VI (1965), 178.