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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'Edgeworth', in Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds, (London, 1976) pp. 53. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/ancient-glos/p53 [accessed 23 April 2024]
EDGEWORTH
(5 miles N.W. of Cirencester)
(1) Cross-ridge Dyke (SO 93130639), on Juniper Hill, of Iron-Age type, excavated, lies across the neck of a sloping spur on the E. side of a valley drained by a tributary of the R. Frome, a mile N.W. of the village.
The bank, 230 ft. long and generally about 35 ft. wide and 7 ft. high, stops short of the scarp edges to N. and S. It runs straight, except for a slight change in direction away from the edge, about 30 ft. from the N. end. From this point and for the last 50 ft. on the S. it gradually diminishes in height and width.
Edgeworth. (1) Cross-ridge Dyke. Plan and profile.
A section cut by Mrs. E. M. Clifford showed the levelled ditch on the E. to be 5 ft. deep and about 25 ft. wide. The bank, mainly of rubble, was revetted on this side by a dry-stone wall to a height of 3 ft. No evidence of date was recovered.
Bagendon, 158–9, fig. 28. Interpreted as a long barrow: Witts (1883), No. 13; Crawford, Long Barrows of the Cotswolds (1925), 107, No. 33. Interpreted as a hill-fort: O.S., Map of Southern Britain in the Iron Age (1962).