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Calcot Camp
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0053
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0053 (53)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Chirbury with Brompton
- National Grid reference
- SO274959
- Latitude
- 52.55656
- Longitude
- -3.07209
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North west); Passage-way/Corridor (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Other (1981); Other (1987); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1973-1979); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006287
- HER
- Shropshire 1218
- National record
- record SO 29 NE 8; monument 105532
- Wikidata
- Q31113181
Sources
References
- Page, W. ed. 1908. Victoria County History of Shropshire, 1, 354, Institute of Historical Research.