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Pyon Wood
Herefordshire, England ยท Atlas EN0029
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0029 (29)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Herefordshire
- Historic county
- Herefordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Aymestrey
- National Grid reference
- SO 423664
- Latitude
- 52.29266
- Longitude
- -2.84745
- Altitude
- 201 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014541
- HER
- Herefordshire MHE10 (second identifier 176)
- National record
- record SO 46 NW 2; monument 108425
- Wikidata
- Q31114227
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, 202, London: St Catherine Press.
- RCHME 1931-34. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, 3, (NW), 14-15, London: HMSO.