Location
- Atlas number
- EN0050 (50)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Church Stretton
- National Grid reference
- SO 477952
- Latitude
- 52.55281
- Longitude
- -2.77240
- Altitude
- 459 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 3, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- guard chambers and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East); Oblique (East); Recesses/Guard Chambers (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- south and level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1662); Other (1968); Other (1972); Other (1985); Other (2009); Other (2012); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1021067
- HER
- Shropshire 226
- National record
- record SO 49 NE 11; monument 106751
- Wikidata
- Q31113154
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, 361, Institute of Historical Research.
- Watson, M. 2002. Shropshire an archaeological guide, 24-25 photo, Shrewsbury: Shropshire Books.