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Walterstone Camp
Herefordshire, England ยท Atlas EN0036
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0036 (36)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Herefordshire
- Historic county
- Herefordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Walterstone
- National Grid reference
- SO348250
- Latitude
- 51.92040
- Longitude
- -2.94819
- Altitude
- 230 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.77 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1001755
- HER
- Herefordshire MHE804 (second identifier 1586)
- National record
- record SO 32 NW 3; monument 105680
- Wikidata
- Q31114256
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.
- RCHME 1931-34. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, 1, (SW), 248, 9, London: HMSO.