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Risbury Camp
Herefordshire, England ยท Atlas EN0030
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0030 (30)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Herefordshire
- Historic county
- Herefordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Humber
- National Grid reference
- SO 542553
- Latitude
- 52.19399
- Longitude
- -2.67148
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 3.4 ha
- Footprint
- 11.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- valley bottom
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Other (1968); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1001749
- HER
- Herefordshire MHE906 (second identifier 2221)
- National record
- record SO 55 NW 2; monument 110662
- Wikidata
- Q31114230
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, 213-14, London: St Catherine Press.
- RCHME 1931-34. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, 3, (NW), 73-4, 8, London: HMSO.