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Cherry Hill Camp
Herefordshire, England ยท Atlas EN0009
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0009 (9)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Herefordshire
- Historic county
- Herefordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Fownhope
- National Grid reference
- SO 577352
- Latitude
- 52.01369
- Longitude
- -2.61719
- Altitude
- 140 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (2012); Earthwork Survey (2001-2017)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1001757
- HER
- Herefordshire MHE412 (second identifier 909)
- National record
- record SO 53 NE 15; monument 110096
- Wikidata
- Q31114079
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, 212-13, London: St Catherine Press.
- RCHME 1931-34. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, 2 (E), 83, 30, London: HMSO.
- Stanford, S. C. (ed.). 1976. Guide to Prehistoric and Roman Sites in Herefordshire, Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club Archaeological Research Section. Page 20.