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Downton Camp
Herefordshire, England ยท Atlas EN0016
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0016 (16)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Herefordshire
- Historic county
- Herefordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Downton
- National Grid reference
- SO 4288 7310
- Latitude
- 52.35294
- Longitude
- -2.84009
- Altitude
- 137 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
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (1972); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 19177
- HER
- Herefordshire MHE821 (second identifier 1642)
- National record
- record SO 47 SW 8; monument 108830
- Wikidata
- Q31114153
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.
- RCHME 1934. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, 3 (NW), London: HMSO.