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Chase Wood Camp
Herefordshire, England ยท Atlas EN0008
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0008 (8)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Herefordshire
- Historic county
- Herefordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ross Rural
- National Grid reference
- SO 602224
- Latitude
- 51.89864
- Longitude
- -2.57966
- Altitude
- 203 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 10.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- commercial forestry, pasture, and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- Other (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1001743
- HER
- Herefordshire MHE407 (second identifier 904)
- National record
- record SO 62 SW 8; monument 111919
- Wikidata
- Q31114068
Sources
References
- Dorling, P. and Wigley, A. 2012. Assessment of the archaeological and conservation status of major later prehistoric enclosures in Herefordshire and Shropshire, EH PNUM, Version 3.2, Hereford and Shrewsbury: Herefordshire Council/Shropshire Council.
- Page, W. ed. 1908. The Victoria County History of the County of Herefordshire, 1, 219, London: St Catherine Press.
- RCHME 1931-34. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, 2 (E), 167, 6, London: HMSO.
- Stanford, S. C. (ed.). 1976. Guide to Prehistoric and Roman Sites in Herefordshire. Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club Archaeological Research Section, 24-25.