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Blodwell Rock
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0041
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0041 (41)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Llanyblodwell
- Also recorded in
- Powys
- National Grid reference
- SJ266228
- Latitude
- 52.79892
- Longitude
- -3.08912
- Altitude
- 210 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.48 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Other (1972); Other (1981); Other (1987); Other (2012); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004781
- HER
- Shropshire 1439 (second identifier 19259)
- National record
- record SJ 22 SE 8; monument 66013
- Wikidata
- Q31113104
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.
- Fox, C. and Hemp, W.J. 1926. Two un-recorded hillforts on Llanymynech Hill, Montgomeryshire and Blodwell Rock, Shropshire and their relation to Offa's Dyke, Arch Camb, 81, 395-400.