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Bury Ditches
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0047
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0047 (47)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lydbury North
- National Grid reference
- SO 327837
- Latitude
- 52.44742
- Longitude
- -2.99104
- Altitude
- 392 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 5, SE 2, SW 2, NW 5
- Number of ditches
- 5
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); Passage-way/Corridor (North east); Over-lapping (South west); Passage-way/Corridor (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- Other (1968); Other (1973); Other (1985); Other (2009); Other (2012); Other (1976-1981); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1985-1900); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1010320
- HER
- Shropshire 149
- National record
- record SO 38 SW 3; monument 107285
- Wikidata
- Q31113139
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.
- Page, W. ed. 1908. Victoria County History of Shropshire, 1, 364-65, Institute of Historical Research.
- Watson 2002. Shropshire an archaeological guide, 21-2, aerial photo. Shrewsbury: Shropshire Books.