Oldbury Camp, Oldbury-on-Severn: geophysical, topographical and geoarchaeological data

This project covers, largely, non-invasive archaeological investigations on the Toot, or Camp, at Oldbury-on-Severn, South Gloucestershire, between December 2015 and December 2016.

The project was supported as part of "A Forgotten Landscape", a Heritage Lottery Funded Landscape Partnership Scheme.

The aims covered here were to perform geophysical and topographical surveys of the monument and augering; to help focus future excavation work.

Seven of the nine fields on the monument were available for surveying. All of these seven have been surveyed topographically. Six of them have been surveyed geophysically. Three auger transects were completed

There was no compelling evidence for any major structures or large-scale man-made features such as infilled ditches, other than those which are still visible on the surface.

Ephemeral anomalies, particularly resistivity anomalies, were identified as potential sites for test-pitting. Test pitting results are reported in a separate report from DigVentures, who supervised the test pitting.

Access to, and permission to survey, the monument has been graciously given the local landowners, tenants and the community of Oldbury-on-Severn. Their kind support and assistance was welcome.

Permissions to investigate this scheduled monument were provided by Historic England who issued a section 42 licence for the survey.

Funding for this project was provided by the Heritage Lottery Fund, South Gloucestershire Council and Horizon Nuclear Power.

Archaeological support and practical project management has been provided by the South Gloucestershire Council. Rebecca Bennett as Project Manager has been particularly energetic in providing technical and managerial help.