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Bodbury Ring
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0043
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0043 (43)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Church Stretton
- National Grid reference
- SO 445948
- Latitude
- 52.54812
- Longitude
- -2.81988
- Altitude
- 373 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.49 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); In-turned (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1972); Other (1981); Other (1995); Other (2009); Other (2012); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1009309
- HER
- Shropshire 1245
- National record
- record SO 49 SW 19; monument 109358
- Wikidata
- Q31113121
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.
- Newman, J. and Pevsner, N. 2006. The buildings of England - Shropshire, New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
- Page, W. ed. 1908. Victoria County History of Shropshire, 1, 354-55, Institute of Historical Research.