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Abdon Burf
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0039
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0039 (39)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Abdon
- National Grid reference
- SO 595866
- Latitude
- 52.47583
- Longitude
- -2.59765
- Altitude
- 530 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 7.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East); Outworks (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland and heath
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Excavation (1840); Other (2012); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1929-1930)
Identifiers
- HER
- Shropshire 182
- National record
- record SO 58 NE 1; monument 111174
- Wikidata
- Q31113093
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.
- Hannaford, H.R. and Ward, P.A. 2014. Shropshire Mineral Resources Assessment for Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin, Unpublished SCAS rep. 357, 38.
- Harding-Webster, G.R. 1929_30. Abdon Burf Camp. Trans Shropshire Archaeol Soc, 45, 85-96.
- Hartshorne, C.H. 1841. Salopia Antiqua, 3-21.
- Page, W. ed. 1908. Victoria County History of Shropshire, 1, 359, Institute of Historical Research.
- Rowley, T. 2001. The Welsh Border, 200, 202, Stroud: Tempus.