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Timberline
Herefordshire, England · Atlas EN0032
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0032 (32)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Herefordshire
- Historic county
- Herefordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Madley
- National Grid reference
- SO387367
- Latitude
- 52.02625
- Longitude
- -2.89386
- Altitude
- 196 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
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- Excavation (1932); Excavation (1952); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- HER
- Herefordshire MHE696 (second identifier 1463)
- National record
- record SO 33 NE 12; monument 105768
- Wikidata
- Q31114099
Sources
References
- Anthony, I.E. 1958. The Iron Age camp at Poston, Herefordshire, Hereford: The Woolhope Club.
- 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.