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Dinmore Hill
Herefordshire, England ยท Atlas EN0014
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0014 (14)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Herefordshire
- Historic county
- Herefordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hope under Dinmore
- National Grid reference
- SO 520519
- Latitude
- 52.16324
- Longitude
- -2.70318
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 9.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- animal bones and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Excavation (2009); Geophysical Survey (2009); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- HER
- Herefordshire MHE872 (second identifier 1733)
- Wikidata
- Q31113972
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.
- Pryor, F., Dorling, P. and Ray, K. forthcoming. Surveys and excavation on Dinmore Hill, Herefordshire, Herefordshire Archaeology Report.