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Dorstone Hill
Herefordshire, England · Atlas EN0015
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0015 (15)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Herefordshire
- Historic county
- Herefordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dorstone
- National Grid reference
- SO 327421
- Latitude
- 52.07366
- Longitude
- -2.98322
- Altitude
- 257 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory 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
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.19 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland, commercial forestry, and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014544
- HER
- Herefordshire MHE771 (second identifier 1552)
- National record
- record SO 34 SW 19; monument 106123
- Wikidata
- Q31114139
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.