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Croft Ambrey
Herefordshire, England · Atlas EN0012
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0012 (12)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Herefordshire
- Historic county
- Herefordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Aymestry
- National Grid reference
- SO 444668
- Latitude
- 52.29647
- Longitude
- -2.81673
- Altitude
- 295 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 3.6 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 2.2 ha, 3.6 ha
- Footprint
- 8.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- guard chambers, annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west); Hollow Way (North east); In-turned (North east); Outworks (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heath
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50, AD 50–400, and AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual, C14, and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and quarry hollows
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, rectangular structures, and quarry hollows
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, human bones, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- Other (1968); Other (2012); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1960-1966)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1001750
- HER
- Herefordshire MHE11 (second identifier 177)
- National record
- record SO 46 NW 1; monument 108422
- Wikidata
- Q31114125
Sources
References
- Darvill, T. Stamper, P. and Timby, J. 2000. England an archaeological guide, 202-3, Oxford: OUP.
- 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.
- Field, D, Smith, N. 2008. Croft Ambrey, Aymestrey, Herefordshire. Analysis of earthworks, Archaeological Survey Report, Swindon: English Heritage.
- Stanford, S. 1974. Croft Ambrey, Leominster: Privately published.