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Westington Camp
Herefordshire, England ยท Atlas EN0038
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0038 (38)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Herefordshire
- Historic county
- Herefordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Grendon Bishop
- National Grid reference
- SO 580566
- Latitude
- 52.20643
- Longitude
- -2.61605
- Altitude
- 210 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, berm, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1886); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1001742
- HER
- Herefordshire MHE667 (second identifier 1316)
- National record
- record SO 55 NE 6; monument 110640
- Wikidata
- Q31114263
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 1932. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, 2, 84-5, London: HMSO.