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Caer-Din Ring
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0052
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0052 (52)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Clun
- National Grid reference
- SO24078504
- Latitude
- 52.45805
- Longitude
- -3.11890
- Altitude
- 430 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.88 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Hollow Way (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Other (1981); Other (1987); Other (2012); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1973-1979); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1021280
- HER
- Shropshire 1192
- National record
- record SO 28 NW 7; monument 105295
- Wikidata
- Q31113168
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.
- Guilbert, G.C. 1976. Caer-Din Ring, Salop, Arch Camb, CXXXV, 165-69.
- Page, W. ed. 1908. Victoria County History of Shropshire, 1, 372-73, Institute of Historical Research.