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Sutton Walls
Herefordshire, England · Atlas EN0031
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0031 (31)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Herefordshire
- Historic county
- Herefordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Sutton
- National Grid reference
- SO 525463
- Latitude
- 52.11346
- Longitude
- -2.69480
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 11.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, palisade, and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East); In-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- west and level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- quarry hollows
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, human bones, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887); Other (2012); Other (1665-1693); 1st Identified Written Reference (1501-1600); Excavation (1948-1954)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1001747
- HER
- Herefordshire MHE415 (second identifier 912)
- National record
- record SO 54 NW 1; monument 110452
- Wikidata
- Q31114231
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.
- Kenyon, K.M. 1954. The excavations at Sutton Walls, Herefordshire, 1948-51, Archaeol J, 110, 1-87.
- Page, W. ed. 1908. The Victoria County History of the County of Herefordshire, 1, 220, London: St Catherine Press.
- RCHME 1931-34. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, 2, (E), 181-82, 33, London: HMSO.