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Callow Hill Camp
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0054
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0054 (54)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Minsterley
- National Grid reference
- SJ 384048
- Latitude
- 52.63767
- Longitude
- -2.91110
- Altitude
- 180 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.38 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1971); Other (1981); Other (2012); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1981-1987); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1019828
- HER
- Shropshire 1048
- National record
- record SJ 30 SE 1; monument 66366
- Wikidata
- Q31113198
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, 366, Institute of Historical Research.
- Reid, M.L 1998: The Callow Hill Camp, an archaeological management plan. Report for Shropshire County Council.