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Mere Hill
Herefordshire, England ยท Atlas EN0023
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0023 (23)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Herefordshire
- Historic county
- Herefordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Aymestry
- National Grid reference
- SO 406655
- Latitude
- 52.28484
- Longitude
- -2.87149
- Altitude
- 238.6 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Enclosing works, excavated
- unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches and gang working
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Excavation (2000); Earthwork Survey (2000); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- HER
- Herefordshire MHE10563 (second identifier 30297)
- Wikidata
- Q31114008
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.
- Ray, K. and Hoverd , T. 2000: Investigations at Mere Hill, Aymestrey, Herefordshire, Hereford: Archaeology Reports No 2.