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Oldbury, Much Marcle
Herefordshire, England · Atlas EN0025
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0025 (25)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Herefordshire
- Historic county
- Herefordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Much Marcle
- National Grid reference
- SO 632325
- Latitude
- 51.99025
- Longitude
- -2.53727
- Altitude
- 180 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour 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
- 5.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- HER
- Herefordshire MHE419 (second identifier 916)
- National record
- record SO 63 SW 6; monument 112135
- Wikidata
- Q31114027
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.
- Page, W. ed.1908. The Victoria County History of the County of Herefordshire, 1, 218, London: St Catherine Press.
- RCHME 1931-34. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, 2 (E), 134, 41, London: HMSO.
- Stanford, S.C. ed. 1976. Guide to Prehistoric and Roman Sites in Herefordshire, Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club Archaeological Research Section, 24.