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Wall Hills, Thornbury
Herefordshire, England ยท Atlas EN0035
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0035 (35)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Herefordshire
- Historic county
- Herefordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Thornbury
- National Grid reference
- SO629597
- Latitude
- 52.23496
- Longitude
- -2.54328
- Altitude
- 230 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
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east); In-turned (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, arable, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1001748
- HER
- Herefordshire MHE416 (second identifier 913)
- National record
- record SO 65 NW 10; monument 112487
- Wikidata
- Q31114245
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, 221, London: St Catherine Press.
- RCHME 1931-34. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, 2, (E), 189-90, 13, London: HMSO.